Hangul 두루넷 McCune–Reischauer Turunet | Revised Romanization Durunet Founded 1996 | |
Korea Thrunet Co, Ltd. is a Seoul-based Korean telecommunications company, one of the largest providers of high-speed broadband internet access in South Korea. The company is one of the largest telephone companies in South Korea, one of only three companies licensed to provide local telephone access. A division of the company known as MultiPlus controls a large portion of the South Korean internet market. Korea Thrunet tried unsuccessfully to merge with Hanaro Telecom, Inc. in 2004[1], but then was acquired by Hanaro Telecom in 2005 [2].
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Korea Thrunet Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA