South Korean village on the border with North Korea gets 5G service

28 Jun 2019

South Korean village on the border with North Korea gets 5G service

South Korean village on the border with North Korea gets 5G serviceSouth Korean mobile carrier KT Corp announced on 27th June that it has launched 5G services in Taesung Freedom Village in South Korea.

Taesung Freedom Village is a South Korean village in the 4-km-wide Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea.
 	The new technology will give villagers better access to online services, such as yoga classes, and enable them to water crops by remote control.
 	The 200 village residents cannot leave their homes or work in the fields without a military guard, as the DMZ is one of the world’s most heavily armed border zones.
 	Village mayor Kim Dong-gu welcomed the arrival of 5G in their “island on land”.

South Korea’s intelligence service tested the 5G stations to ensure network signals do not cross the border.

KT Corp also operates military hotlines* between the two countries.

The world is gearing up for 5G services and South Korea is at the forefront of it.

North and South Korea are still technically at war after the 1950-53 Korean War ended in an armistice (temporary truce), not a peace treaty (which would bring the war to an end).

*Hotline: It is a special, direct phone line between the heads of government in different countries

Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons

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