Talk about home advantage. Little over one month since Samsung's Galaxy S II hit the shelves in South Korea, numbers drawn from the country's biggest operators suggest the number of units sold to date has hit 1 million.

According to JoongAng Daily, Korea's leading carrier SK Telecom has activated 550,000 Galaxy S2 handsets to date, with rival KT Corp having sold 300,000 units.

Super Samsung share

A further 150,000 phones sold by LG U+ Corp adds up to 1 million units exactly, though Samsung is yet to release any official statistics regarding the handset's performance at retail to date.

As a result of its stellar start, however, Samsung reportedly mopped up 60 percent of all mobile sales across the country in May – it's highly monthly market share in 2011.

Samsung expects to spell 10 million Galaxy S II handsets throughout the course of the year, with pre-orders made back in May surpassing the 3 million mark as the firm prepared to roll the phone out in more than 120 countries.

The news comes just as Japanese investment bank Nomura issued a note predicting that the South Korean firm will become the world's largest smartphone manufacturer this quarter, ahead of Apple and Nokia.

[source: Cellular News]