4/29 Talk about cell phone service plan in Korea.

Almost everyone in Korea owns a cell phone. There are three major mobile service providers – SKT, KT, and LG U+.

Mobile carriers offer a complex variety of service plans to compete against one another.

* mobile carrier: 이동통신사

ex> Mobile carriers often provide phone subsidies.

When picking a payment plan, you should think about how you use your phone.

* payment plan: 요금제

ex> You can change your payment plan if you need to.

Do you primarily use it to make phone calls, send texts, or surf the Internet?

Most people pick a monthly flat rate that provides a certain amount of free calls and texts.

* monthly flat rate: 월 정액제,

ex> I think the monthly flat rate I’m using now is good for me.

ex> I got a flat rate of 5.1 percent for the interest.  (고정금리)

Since smartphones can access the Internet, a big part of cell phone bills now comes from data transmission.

ex> The speed of data transmission has gotten a lot faster with the LTE service.

People can also use their cell phones to pay for small-scale transactions.

* small-scale transaction: 소액 결제

ex> I make small-scale transactions with my smartphone quite often.

@ We’re all in this together.  우리 모두 한 배를 탄 거야.

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1. The company is the biggest mobile carrier in Korea.

2. You can choose from a variety of payment plans.

3. The monthly flat rate is the most popular payment plan.

4. Data transmission takes up a large part of my cell phone bill.

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