Ever since its debut on 15th September, over 270 thousand Koreans have bought themselves a Galaxy Note 8 smartphone (South Koreans, naturally. North Koreans maybe one half a Samsung that someone accidentally dropped into the border river). Pretty large number, especially considering the phone’s rather hefty price of KRW 950950, or 849 pounds. The only Samsung phone that sold better than that is Galaxy S8, who sold 260 thousand units just on day one.