South Koreans arrested on their Mobiles

The logic is that since over 75 per cent of the population carries mobile phones, sending legal notices on paper was pretty dumb and it was time to send them electronically instead.

According to Lee Young-pyo, an administrative official SMS was a sure fire way to make sure that a person had received a legal notice.

People have to sign up for the service, so it is not as if they are going to come from the blue. But there must be a lot of legal notices issued in South Korea as prosecutors expect to save about 160 million won ($158,000) a year by shifting to the service and reducing the number of legal notices it sends through the mail.

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