An interesting article on the state of eGovernment in South Korea. Their $251 million project, which began last November, has since lost 2/3 of its traffic since debuting. The program relies heavily on public kiosks and severeal of those kiosks have already been shut down because of disuse.

I don't read Korean well enough (at all, really), to judge the Korean eGov site, but I hope that usability is the problem, rather than that this speaks about the potential of the use of kiosks to bridge the digital divide.

Whatever the cause of the failures, the current problems don't bode well for what was supposed to have been the world's first eGovernment.