Engineers setting up a 5G base station in Seoul, South Korea, on May 31, 2019. Asia’s fourth-biggest economy has remained the 5G pioneer, but the hype had begun to fade even before Covid-19 slammed demand for 5G devices. — SK Telecom/Handout/Reuters
SEOUL: South Korea was the first country to launch a fifth-generation mobile network in 2019, heralding a warp-speed technological transformation to self-driving cars and smart cities.
Three years on, the giddy promises are unfulfilled.
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