Amazon’s Project Kuiper Eyes Korean Market… Job Posting for Country Manager Appears
Amazon’s satellite internet service, Project Kuiper, is considering entering the Korean market and has begun recruiting local personnel.
This move will put it in competition with Elon Musk’s Starlink, which is also preparing to launch services in Korea.
On July 3, Amazon’s official job site (amazon.jobs) showed that the company posted a job opening on June 23 for a Country Manager in Korea responsible for government relations related to Project Kuiper.
Similar positions are also being recruited in other East Asian countries such as Japan and Taiwan.
The main responsibilities of this role include executing country-specific business development strategies aligned with regional goals, building and maintaining relationships with key government officials including ministers, developing and managing a government sales pipeline, identifying and establishing strategic partnerships with government entities, engaging with government customers, and leading negotiations with government agencies.
Project Kuiper is Amazon’s satellite internet service project. The company aims to build a satellite constellation consisting of more than 3,000 satellites, and plans to launch about half of them—1,618 satellites—by July next year.
Amazon successfully launched its first batch of 27 internet satellites in April, followed by an additional 27 satellites last month, bringing the total number of Kuiper satellites in orbit to 54. These satellites are positioned in low Earth orbit, approximately 1,200 miles above the Earth’s surface, to provide satellite internet services.
Through this initiative, Project Kuiper plans to compete directly with SpaceX’s Starlink, a satellite internet service led by Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Since launching its first operational satellite in 2019, SpaceX has deployed over 7,000 satellites into orbit using its own Falcon rockets. Starlink is currently preparing to launch its service in Korea.
