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I want to introduce some of English based web service made by brilliant Korean young startup. If new startup is appeared, I'll do again with numbers. FaceWorthy FaceWorthy is a social discovery network that allows you to upload photos and gain recognition. Show your best through photos and get people to vote for you. If you collect lots of votes, you get to access special features, and may even earn money. It is not designed for shy people but here for people who are passionate about expressing themselves and communicating with others. It is for people who have healthy desire to show who ...

It's almost one and a half years to stop blogging Koreacrunch.com. There was no special reason to do that and just wanted to focus on my job of open APIs evangelism for Daum's 3rd party developers and writing my Korean blog with over 6,000 readers. I guess you may get informations from Web2.0 Asia and Technokimchi.com. I decided to restart blogging with new prospects not to cover only Korean news that treats less important relatively. I regretted topics were limited in myself in this blog. There have been my own thoughts about global IT news, but I didn't treated them. Also ...

Recently Google Korea firstly acquired TNC, the famous blog service developing company that has made Textcube (a.k.a Tattertools) similar with Wordpress case. It became buzz in a flash by many famous blogs such as Techcrunch, GigaOM, NY Times, VentureBeat, InformationWeek, The Inquisitr, Epicenter, p2pnet,  Portfolio, WebProNews, AppScout, Webware.com, Valleywag and Pulse 2.0. They have developed Tattertools as an open source software under GPL and developed and sold Tistory.com to Daum - now Tistory became one of top 20 properties in Korea. Before this acquisition, TNC are preparing Textcube.com resembling Wordpress.com. Surely its success is based on philosophy of open and ...

The Korea Fair Trade Commission(KFTC), South Korea's anti-trust watchdog approved conditional approval for U.S. online auction site eBay Inc.'s bid to buy into very big online retailer Gmarket (http://www.gmarket.co.kr) The eBay's Korean property, Internet Auction (http://www.auction.co.kr) also has been very big player in this area. So Gmarket and Internet Auction eBay's South Korean unit, when combined would control 87.2 percent of the local online retail market. You may wander this makes anti-trust issue for existence of big player with exclusive market share. For your understanding, online shopping was divided into two categories of retail (B2C) and auction(C2C). Internet Auction ...