Perhaps I should have been a little more specific in my post:

It's more like FTTB (Fiber To The Basement), rather than FTTH. The fiber is terminated in the basement and distributed through the ADSL/VDSL DSLAM, as stimpy said. Or, in the newer apartments, fed into a switch which is wired up to apartments using Ethernet cables.

I'm not personally aware of any "true" FTTH service so far, but for most people, the "FTTB" is enough because it really does give more than enough bandwidth for just about anything you can think of.

For example, ADSL already carries voice and data. VDSL can add video. To my knowledge, DVD-quality video can be pumped through at approx. 1.5Mbps. So unless you have multi-room AVOD, I would have thought that few people would need more than 24Mbps.

But whether the bandwidth is needed or not, I can only watch in envy while I use the 512Kbps DSL connection in the UK, paying more than what people pay in Korea for the symmetric 24Mbps VDSL.