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Friday February 6, 2009 13:30

Youtube still struggles in Korea

People said Korea is a grave of famous global companies such as Wal-mart, Nokia Carrefour, Nestlé,and Google. MySpace also quits their business in here.
Youtube is not exception. It was opened in one year ago with promotion of Steve Chen, co-founder of Youtube, visited Korea. During one year, Youtube seems nice growth but, it still struggles [...]

Wednesday February 4, 2009 21:14

NHN earned 860 million dollars in 2008

NHN announced earning surprise of 2008 year with increasing over 30% sales and income compared with 2007. According to corporate earning presentation, the total sales in 2008 reached 8.6 hundred million US dollars and net income did 2.6 hundred million US dollars. It was just discounted because of weaken Korean won.

2008
2007
Amount Increased
Rate(%)

Sales
1,208,126,638
920,208,853
287,917,785
31.29

Operating Income
491,174,801
389,491,413
101,683,388
26.11

Net profit [...]

Wednesday February 4, 2009 18:01

Myspace closes Korean version

Myspace Korean version officially will be closed in Feb. 18th. According to news media, Korean branch was managed by Fox Interactive, but it will be shut down in Korea too.

Myspace was launched Korean version in very enthusiastically in Apr. 15th, 2008. Chris DeWolfe, Myspace CEO who was visiting Korea, delivered a keynote at several [...]

Tuesday February 3, 2009 11:47

Daum gains 20% share in search market

Daum, the #2 largest Internet portal in Korea gains 20% share in Korean search market. As you know, Korea is one of Google failed countries against local search engine. Google is still behind others in Russia, the Czech Republic, Korea, China and Japan. Yandex, Seznam, Naver, Baidu and Yahoo! Japan are all the leaders in [...]

Tuesday January 20, 2009 05:27

7 Things

7 things is very popular posting relay. I’m very happy to join this by Gen Kanai was tagged me.
The Rules

Link to your original tagger(s) (see above) and list these rules in your post.
Share seven facts about yourself in the post.
Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the [...]

Monday December 29, 2008 06:53

Barack Obama vs. Roh, Moohyun

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 [...]

Monday December 29, 2008 06:10

Top Interent News in 2008

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 [...]

Sunday December 21, 2008 04:25

Low attention for Asian web 2.0 blogs

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 [...]

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