SEOUL, South Korea - KT Corp has partnered with Apple to bring the iPhone to South Korea, home to two of the world's largest mobile phone manufacturers, Samsung and LG.

Korean consumers are used to high-end smartphones with large displays, high megapixel-count cameras and offering mobile TV, the two latter features that are lacking on the iPhone.

Apple has also released the iPhone in China recently, totalling the countries to which the smartphone is available to 86.

SK Telecom has also been in talks with Apple in concerns to the iPhone, but the Cupertino tech giant has stated that the Korean network has not decided in whether or not it will offer the handset to its customers.

KT expects to sell anything from 100 000 to 500 000 iPhone units in the country, even though the handset cannot keep up to the high-end devices available from the network.

Sales begin on the 28th of November, and the packages offering the iPhone are said to have a monthly cost of 35 000 KRW (US$30), 45 000 KRW (US$39), 65 000 KRW (US$56) and 95 000 KRW (US$82).

[1 KRW = US$0.000862106]