Building a telecommunications infrastructure for the 21st century: Public policy implications of the cable television development plan in Korea

The analysis of (1) the Korean government's cable television development planning with a focus on the 1992 Cable Television Act and related Presidential Decree, (2) cases of industrialized countries including the US, UK, Germany, France, and Japan, and (3) factors involved in the diffusion process of media from adopters’ perspective identifies three core areas for the public policy: (1) the importance of co‐ordination among government's regulatory agencies and branches, (2) the criticalness of hardware manufacturing as an industrial strategy and software development as a cultural policy, and (3) the necessity of policy evaluation based on the cost‐effect formula and the revision of the 1992 Cable Television Act.