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To: foundation who wrote (18640)	1/31/2002 6:50:48 AM
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Wanna catch a soap opera? Just grab your cell phone by Yum Tae-jung January 31, 2002 Mobile phone subscribers will be able to watch television programs through their handsets beginning in March, a domestic carrier said Wednesday. KT Freetel, the second largest cell service provider in Korea, said that it has signed agreements with three broadcasting companies, Korea Broadcasting System, Munhwa Broadcasting Corp. and Seoul Broadcasting System, to provide programming for the new service. KT Freetel said it will begin to test-serve popular dramas of the three broadcasters through cell phones in late February. The company said it will start to provide news programs and sports events in real time in late March. The company said it plans to feed live broadcasts of major games of the World Cup soccer tournament to be held in Korea and Japan. The international soccer tournament begins in late May. "Files of television dramas are quite large, so files will be divided into 30-second blocks and sent to mobile phones," a KT Freetel official said. To view the television programs, subscribers will have to use a third-generation mobile handset, the company said. Those new handsets were put on the market late last year, and are priced at about 400,000 won ($300). english.joins.com