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| | BW Online | February 4, 2002 | South Korea: A Nation of Digital Guinea Pigs |
 | | When you think of it, says Deputy City Director Jung Chang Sop, cash is just a "hassle." So in March Seongnam will start equipping citizens with digital cell phones that, in effect, pay for purchases at every store in the city. |
 | | Cash-free Seongnam is just one of many on-the-ground tests being launched in South Korea, a nation with a collective mania for things digital. |
 | | Some Scandinavian communities use cell phones as payment tools, but the Seongnam experiment, launched by Harex InfoTech, the credit card unit of Kookmin Bank, the nation's largest, and LG TeleCom, is one of the first to rely on infrared technology. |
| www.businessweek.com /magazine/content/02_05/b3768067.htm (817 words) |
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