KT Submarine won a $9.79 million order from SubCom to lay fiber optic communications cables under the Pacific Ocean last December. KT Submarine is the only submarine cable company in Korea, and it is also the only Asian firm participating in the latest project. Installation of the fiber optic cables will help boost intercontinental communications. The company will break ground in April. Of the 14,000 kilometers of cable construction, KT Submarine will build the 780-kilometer section from Songjeong in Busan to South China Sea areas in the period between April and September.