Korea is Android republic?

Around 93 percent of smartphones in South Korea were powered by the Android platform, far above the 5.1 percent for Apple's iOS.
A survey shows 19 out of 20 smartphones in South Korea operate on the Android platform.

U.S. market researcher Strategy Analytics(SA) surveyed the installed base of smartphones by mobile operating system in 88 countries. It says South Korea had the highest share of Android-powered smartphones in the world at 93.4% Argentina marked second highest at 82% share followed closely by China(81.8%), India(78.4%), and Iraq(77.9%).


Korea's Android share is much higher than the global average of 67.5% and the Asia-Pacific average of 74.3% percent.

Inside source evaluated highest android os market share in korea is due to fact that three major domestic smartphone producers, Samsung, LG, Pantech all make phones powered by the Android platform.