The Ministry will be pushing for the early broadcasting of digital TV to encourage development of digital TV-related industries. This initiative will also help Korea to cope technically with the international trend of convergence between telecommunications and broadcasting in major advanced nations. Analog TVs currently dominate fifteen percent of the world market. Digital TVs, however, are estimated to dominate initially over 30 percent of the market around the world. It is expected that by 2010, over 90 thousand new jobs will be created and exports will amount to 154 billion dollars.
Korea will provisionally adopt the U.S. standard, the Advanced Television Standard Committee (ATSC), to conduct pilot broadcasting in the year 2000, and to provide full-fledged digital broadcasting in 2001.