At Friday’s iPhone 4 presser, aka Antennagate, Steve Jobs was tasked with bringing Apple’s credibility back up to snuff after angering customers over the phone’s nagging reception issues. And just as many cell phone companies such as Nokia and Blackberry cried foul when Jobs unapologetically showed how their phones suffered from a similar “death grip,” it seems there is someone else calling foul: South Korea.

During the conference, Jobs announced that plans to ship the latest iPhone to Korea has been postponed. “It’s going to take just a little bit longer to get government approval there,” he said, acknowledging the country’s absence from the list of 17 nations receiving the gadget at the end of July. However, the fault is by no means South Korea’s government–they never even received an application.

Reported today in the Choson Ilbo, one of the major newspaper of South Korea, Apple never applied for approval. “The Korea Communications Commission, which gives the green light to sales of electronic communications devices, issued a quick response denying any responsibility,” the paper said. “The Radio Research Agency has yet to receive an application to test…the iPhone 4.”

Indeed, the Korean daily charges Steve Jobs with lying about the delay, saying he masked the fact that it was Apple’s poor preparations that is leading to the iPhone’s two-month delay. Korea Telecom, the phone’s distributor, even went so far as to publish the full text of Apple’s response to questions over for the delay, in which Apple admits fault. (It appears the text has yet to be published on KT’s english site.) “In other words, Apple, not the Korean government, is to blame,” wrote Jung Sun-mi, the reporter behind the Choson Ilbo‘s article.

“Apple says it puts its customers first, but fans of the product in Korea are apparently not on that list.”