Korea, perhaps the most sophisticated cellphone market in the world, and it will get to test the power of the BlackBerry. Buried in this busy news week where we’ve seen the Bold and the Thunder come out of RIM’s lab and a couple of iPhone rivals or so, this little piece of BlackBerry news must answer one question to become a little more relevant: will the Koreans turn into CrackBerrys like their European and American counterparts?

Note: RIM is lucky the Sout Koreans allowed BlackBerrys in. Cellphones in Korea must use WIPI, the local wireless platform. “There have been continuous requests from foreign investors that they should be able to use the BlackBerry here. This issue has been raised as a hindrance to investment,” official of the Ministry of Knowledge Economy. “The government has decided to apply exemption provisions among the regulations to the BlackBerry, classifying it as a PDA used for business purposes.”

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