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The Age's selection of Seoul as the world's digital leader was based in part on the experience of Stephen Quinn, associate professor in communication studies at Deakin University. After visiting the Korean capital, Quinn told the newspaper, "You still see people walking about reading print newspapers, using origami to fold broadsheets to the size of a paperback novel. But you also see people surfing the Internet on tiny laptops while on the subway."

Rounding out the top five tech cities as selected by the newspaper were Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Stockholm. San Francisco and Silicon Valley tied for sixth, Tallinn was seventh, New York eighth, Beijing ninth and New Songdo City came in tenth place. "Asian cities scored well on broadband speed and availability, mainly because they have concentrated populations in a small land area," the article said.

Seoul pioneered digital convergence, the report said. "Digital mobile TV broadcasting, or Digital Multimedia Broadcasting, was launched in South Korea in 2005 and nearly two million Koreans now use the service to watch TV on their phones while riding trains and buses."