Help with SMS in Korea

[broonie]

Hi guys.

For any of you teachers that are from the UK can you tell me if you are able to send & receive text messages from home while using a Korean phone?

I have heard stories that since South Korea uses a different technology with mobiles from pretty much the rest of the world, it cannot connect to the UK networks and technology and therefore is unable to receive text messages sent from the UK.

Is this true or a misunderstanding?

Thanks all!