Looks like South Korea is really getting serious about Wireless Internet access. According to The Feature, Seoul is ready to dump incredible amounts of money to make the wireless network of their dreams a working reality.

The South Korean government has played a major role in helping make that country one of the leaders in both wireless and wired broadband connectivity over the past few years. With that in mind, it wasn’t that surprising to find out that the government in Seoul has put in place plans to push for private investment to create a “converged broadband network.” This grand unified network would offer everything from mobile and wired broadband at speeds of 50 to 100 Mbps, but also include IP-based video broadcasting, RFID, mobile phone communications and VoIP communications. Basically, everything that people talk about when it comes to broadband, all designed with a bit of direction from the top.

While this seems to have widespread support among the various stakeholders in South Korea who are going to be putting in nearly $8 billion to make this network a reality, there still appears to be some confusion over the details. Part of the plan appears to make use of Wi-Bro, which has gone through some changes over the past few months to make sure it aligned well with WiMAX — though, there’s still some confusion about where WiBro fits into the overall wireless broadband arena.

An even bigger concern, however, may be how this impacts other standards. Following last week’s announcement that a number of companies in the space were working on so-called Super 3G, both Samsung and LG spoke up against the group, suggesting it was really an attempt by NTT DoCoMo to do an end run around efforts to settle on a 4G standard.