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Dear

First of all, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to everyone who elected me as Chairman of KAIT. I feel a sense of heavy responsibility for taking office as the Chairman. I am fully aware that KAIT has substantially contributed to growth of Korea as a strong IT country by collecting wisdom and intelligence of our members and closely cooperating with the government since its foundation in 1987.

KAIT has become the womb of the initial businesses that solidified the foundation of the information and telecommunication industry by supplying the telecom network. In addition, KAIT has played a kernelly role in expanding the base of the information and telecommunication industry by supporting various relevant associations during the growth phase.

Our IT industry is now competing shoulder to shoulder with the leading global companies thanks to KAIT's said efforts.

As every one of you may know, the information and telecommunication industry has become the center of the national economic development at the moment. Last year, the IT industry's exports nearly doubled within merely 3 years despite the overall economic stagnation, planting a strong image of "IT Korea" in the global people's mind.

Now, the information and telecommunication industry must operate as a central player that helps the Korean economy growing as the developed economy.

Opportunely, the government has announced its plan to inject KRW417.1 billion this year in improving the IT infrastructure and to fully execute its Digital National Power Reinforcement Measures in order to actively promote model projects (which is the IT839 Strategy) such as BcN, RFID, IPv6, home networks and Jeju Telematics, and simultaneously facilitate the slow economic conditions.

We must mutually cooperate with the government to help our IT industry accomplish better-quality growth and take the leadership position in the global market. In order to achieve these tasks, each member must exert more efforts and KAIT must take the active and leading role to allow members' efforts to achieve larger results.

I will do my best when we prepare long-term strategic plans to bring about such objectives during my tenure of office. In addition, I will focus on developing win-win policies for mutual development by carefully listening to each member.

Furthermore, I will strengthen our cooperative relationship with the government and actively reflect our opinions. Succeeding KAIT's existing projects, I will reinforce our activities to: ▲ provide various industrial information by building the IT statistical information system; ▲ conduct various industrial cooperation projects such as cultivation of next-generation industries (including FTTH industry and LBS industry) and construction of the next-generation IT infrastructure; ▲ expand the market base by building the system to prevent illegal use of other mobile phone users’ name (M-Safer Service) and implementing the privacy security mark system; ▲ strengthen the corporate competitiveness by supporting exports (for instance, participating in the expos and dispatching the IT cooperation team in foreign countries) and cultivating the small and medium businesses; and ▲ reinforce the information and telecommunication human resources cultivation project.

Let's remind ourselves of expectations for the information and telecommunication industry and KAIT's role once again, and do our best to jump into the global market.

Going forward, I will do my best for development of the information and telecommunication industry and KAIT during my tenure. I hope that our members will continue to give us active supports and participation.
Thank you.