While iPhone in South Korea has been enjoying decent sales (about 4,000 units everyday), KT, its official operator seems to be getting less attention from local players, particularly by Samsung. KT Chairman’s Lee Suk-chae is pretty unhappy about how Samsung is providing “lax technology support on handsets” on KT as well as announcing new phones on SK Telecom.

“The Show Omnia is an illegitimate son who can’t call his father, father,” said Lee and accused Samsung for under promoting the handset that managed to sell only 40,000 units as compared to SKT’s T-Omnia II’s 470,000 units. SHOW Omnia is the only Omnia handset that features 3G WCDMA, Wi-Fi and WiBro connectivity.

KT’s desperation also comes from the fact that Samsung will launch Galaxy A (SHW-M100S) this week on SKT whereas Galaxy S, unveiled at CTIA is also expected to be launched on the same operator in June.

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Samsung has announced that its Omnia II smartphone has surpassed 600,000 units in South Korea. Unlike in the international market, Samsung sells different versions of Omnia II on different cellular operators like T*Omnia II (left) for SKT, SHOW Omnia (center) for KT and OZ Omnia (right) for LGT.

Samsung says Omnia II sales averaged about 100,000 units per month and the reason the phone is selling well is because users are satisfied with Omnia II’s performance and its after-sales service.

The common features found in all these phones are 3.7-inch AMOLED touchscreen display, 800MHz processor, 5MP camera, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

UPDATE: KT Omnia users will have to wait longer.

Samsung’s Omnia II variants for South Korea are about to get a WinMo 6.5 update soon. According to Yonhapnews, T*Omnia II and SHOW Omnia meant for SKT and KT respectively will get the free upgrade this month and will be at par with OZ Omnia that is already selling with WinMo 6.5.

To regurgitate, these Omnias feature 3.7-inch AMOLED touchscreen display (800×480), 800MHz CPU speed, 5MP camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, large internal memory and external memory up to 16GB. Additionally, the SHOW Omnia supports 3G WCDMA, Wi-Fi and WiBro connectivity.

Except for unlocked, most of us would find Omnia devices being sold on a single operator. However, in its home market, Samsung has for the first time, mass released different Omnia devices for different operators. SKT will sell T*Omnia II (M710/M715) and Omnia Pop (M720), KT will sell SHOW Omnia (M8400) and Omnia Pop (M7200) and LGT will satisfy its consumers with OZ Omnia (M7350).

In addition to targeting business users, the latest Omnia range will also go for the young consumers with the integration of powerful multimedia features. All the phones are equipped with Haptic UI 2.0, 3D Cube menu and motion detection with Motion UI.

T*Omnia II features, SHOW Omnia and OZ Omnia sport a large 3.7-inch AMOLED touchscreen display (800×480), 800MHz CPU speed, 5MP camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, large internal memory and external memory up to 16GB. Additionally, the SHOW Omnia supports 3G WCDMA, Wi-Fi and WiBro connectivity.

The Omnia Pop on the other hand, is an entry-level Omnia handset with 3-inch WQVGA LCD, 3MP camera, T-DMB, music player and more.