Korea is another country heavily into "trends". Their cycle is extremely short and people change phones, clothes, hair styles, bags etc sometimes every few months. LG and Samsung (both Korean companies) knows this very well and markets it appropriately.

I reckon for the first time, N9 with its sleek design and fancy UI could do really well in Korea. In fact, N8 has quite a following in Korea even though they never released it there due to N8 being the BEST camera phone in the market to date. So there are heaps of people importing it and for the first time, a proper Symbian Korean keyboard replacement was created by the Korean community devs this year due to such momentum. (I have it installed on my E7 and it's brilliant)

So yeah. Nokia should really be pushing the N9 (and maybe N8) into the Korean market to try and gain some market/mind share there. (which they have near zero in Korea) I'm sure WP7 phones will do well because Mango supports full Korean. But I reckon N9/N8 would do equally as well if they just tried. (and have some core apps which is a must to succeed such as KakaoTalk which is Whatsapp equivalent in Korea and every iPhone/Android user uses it pretty much)

Ah well. I'm just glad I'm in Australia to have the N9 released locally. =P