The Samsung Application Store has arrived in its home market at South Korea, where it will be a part of SK Telecom’s App Store. Targeting a December 18 release date, it will function as It’s scheduled to go live tomorrow and will operate as a ‘Shop inside a Shop’ concept. There won’t be a whole host of apps at first, although Samsung claims that they will throw in more in the coming weeks with some entertainment titles such as SimCity, Ferrari GT and Monopoly.

We like to keep an eye on the adoption of mobile video broadcasting applications around these parts. It’s a mighty competitive space, with Qik, Kyte, Flixwagon, UStream and a number of others all taking a stab at what is essentially the same idea. While the idea as a whole has yet to really take off as something that everyone does, its one that just about everyone seems to appreciate once it’s explained to them. Therein lies the challenge: how do you tell people that such services exist?

One approach is to get it on the handsets right out of the box. If it’s hard to get them to come to you, why not go to them?

The only one of the lot we’ve seen do this so far is Qik, who managed to convince Nokia to pre-install Qik on all of their S60-based phones beginning in July. Today, they’ve announced a new factory-loading partner: Samsung.

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