KOREANS in the Philippines can now text in Korean to loved ones in their home country and vice versa.
This, as Smart Communications Inc. develops a service that ensures that all text messages passing through its network, composed in Korean characters, are accurately sent and received by Koreans in the Philippines and in Korea.
“Smart serves not just Filipinos, but also foreign nationals residing in the country and the people they communicate with abroad. In 2006 alone, over three billion international connections were logged on the Smart network, which includes those made by foreign nationals,” said Danilo Mojica, head of Smart’s wireless consumer division.
The Korean SMS service manifests Smart’s commitment to make mobile communications work for all of its customers, regardless of where they are and their nationality, he said.
Before the launch of Korean SMS, Korean nationals in the country contend with sending text messages in English characters, since most ordinary GSM handsets do not support Korean-character SMS input.
Even if they use a handset capable of Korean character input, the content is sometimes not readable when received in Korea because the current text coding process for international SMS does not support Korean characters. (PR)
