South Korean iPhone 4 Pre-Orders Surpass 130,000 On First Day

South Korea's KT Corp received more than 130,000 pre-orders for the iPhone 4 in the first 13 hours of registration, according to the KoreaHerald.

The number of people applying for the new model sharply increased from 40,000 as of 8:55 a.m. to over 60,000 as of 9:45 a.m., KT officials said. It then reached 100,000 people as of 1 p.m., and 130,000 as of 7 p.m. 　


KT received so many orders that it crashed their servers. Pre-orders for the iPhone 3GS reached 14,500 on the first day and 65,000 in the first five days.

"We will make utmost efforts for the launch and delivery of the new model," said Pyo Hyun-myung, president of the mobile business group at KT.

[via AllThingsD]