British state-run broadcaster BBC reports that South Korea is poised to become the world’s leader in revolutionary digital technologies.

In its primetime newscast on Tuesday, the BBC reported in-depth on the country’s mobile phone, high-speed Internet and wireless broadband technologies.

BBC correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones, who visited Korea last month to cover the country’s achievements in information technology, said that four in five households in Korea have broadband, enjoying Internet connectivity speeds of between 20 and 50 Mbps.

He also covered the South Korean government’s “Ubiquitous Dream,” which entails state-of-the-art mobile communication and digital multimedia broadcasting technologies and giving every household an Internet-connected robot by 2010.