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I read US Republicans who are vying to lead the national party offered a mix of reactions Saturday to the decision by one candidate for the job to mail a holiday music CD including the song "Barack the Magic Negro." It seems that someone don't want to accept this fact even though Mr. Obama had the great victory in this year. His election of US president is very meaningful not only in his skin color but also democracy in the Internet. Many people helped him with online participation and campaign as like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. I remembered South Korea staked a ...

The Korea Internet Association was released top news of Korean Intetnet industry in 2008. Making culture of online social controversy and problems (Daum Agora was a playground user-participated debate in US beef import, economic crisis etc. As well malicious comments, rumors, libel on news articles and bulletin board made many social effects for famous star's suicide and defamation of character.) Governmental internet regulation over freedom of expression (Government strengthens monitoring obligation, real identity in web site and the introduction of a law of online contempt etc.) Personal journalism and its growing influence (Fast growing of bloggers, Live news in candlelight protest, ...

My blog has been very long silence and its rare posting will be sorry for my "thankful" readers. Although I declared restarting of blogging, I could not keep my promise. One of reasons is still to focus my Korean blog. Another is because of low attention for Korean market from global audiences. As you know, some of guys made "Open Web Asia" work group gathering Asian bloggers to write their own market such as China, Korea, Japan and others. In October, the international conference also was held in Seoul, Korea. I respects these efforts to spread Asian activities to world because ...

Although iPhone was not released in Korea till now because of Korean WIPI regulations, some of iPhone applications have been shown up in Appstore. Korean twitter, me2day's application is very excellent and fantastic developed by ias. Also Daum's tvPot - video sharing service also was released too. You can see Korean top playing video from iPhone tvPot player. The tvPot is Korean #1 video service property right now. Fortunetly Korean govenment decided to finish WIPI regulation from 1th, April 2009. Although KTF, one of telecommunications company in Korea has tried to launch iPhone with Apple, it must be delayed to April in ...

In May 2006, I made Korean Web 2.0 Logo type gathering Web 2.0 startup service in Korea from 2005 to 2006. After that, I updated some of web services in my blog, but most of them in 2007 and 2008 weren't done my blank time. I searched new web services except big portals and gathered them again. Over 70 sites were made from 2007 to 2008. Compared with Silicon Valley, it's very small. I'll make a brief introduction for most of new services with above logos. You can see first logotype in May 2006 too.

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 ...