It’s official - the Samsung Galaxy S II has just passed the 1 million mark for units sold in Korea (in just one month!) and simultaneously become their fastest-selling smartphone. One million in a month equals out to about 1 every 3 seconds.

Interestingly, the Galaxy S took 70 days to reach the same number.

The phone was released in Korea late April and hit the 100,000 mark in just three days, got to twice that in eight days, and proudly passed a half-million in two weeks. Samsung believes that the huge sales are due to the hardware upgrades they implemented in this second version, which includes a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus screen, 21Mbps 3G, a new TouchWiz interface, and the overall thinner design at 8.9mm.

With such impressive numbers, the smartphone battle in Korea heats up between Samsung and Apple. Though the iPhone is still a bit disadvantaged with the limited carriers it has to offer the iPhone on and that aren’t already supporting Samsung exclusively.

Overall, sales seem like that will continue doing well, especially with the big influence Samsung has in Europe and other parts of the world. Though the Galaxy S II still has to make its debut in the US, where word is that Samsung will try to repeat the same strategy it did here, offering it on all the major American carriers with a bit of a variant, so they aren’t all the same and a bit more appealing.

Props to the million and I can’t wait for it to actually debut in the US, since it really seems like a solid phone. I mean a million+ people can’t all have picked it up for nothing, right?

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