Now the first preorders in the US sold out pretty quick and caused chaos all over the place, but that was to be expected, but it seems South Korea also has got the iPhone bug. Preorders were made available as of yesterday but the demand was so overwhelming, that servers of the carrier KT Corp were crippled. An incredible 130,000 handsets were preordered by 7pm local time, 13 hours after preorders began.
Korean paper, The Korea Herald, said there was significant demand for the iPhone 4 when it went on sale via KT’s website and at its 2,900 shops nationwide. The phone went on sale at 6 a.m. and sold 100,000 by 1 p.m. local time, eventually reaching 130,000, 13 hours after preorders began.
If we compare this the iPhone 3GS, which sold just 60,000 units at launch, the iPhone 4 seems like a success. The iPhone 4 is set to launch in Korea in September.
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