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Buy a South Korean smartphone. These are just a few of the more flamboyant of many temptations dangled in front of prospective smartphone buyers as small South Korean handset makers fight to draw consumer attention from global giants such as Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics and Apple. A lucky South Korean university student recently won a Ferrari in a draw sponsored by domestic handset maker Pantech. The company gave away the nearly 400 million won ($375,500)car as part of efforts to lure potential customers to its Vega Racer smartphone, which it claims is equipped with the world's fastest application processor. Rival KT Tech, a handset unit of no. 2 mobile carrier KT Corp, last week offered two smartphones at one price -- but only to twins, a promotion of its new Janus smartphone, Janus, which it claims to be the world's first smartphone equipped with 1.5 GHz dual core processor. 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