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At last, iPhone officially launched in Korea on Nov. 28th, 2009. iPhone consumers lined up at midnight to be among the first in the country to get their hands on it in front of launching event place. Hundreds of people began to stand in line from midnight in front of Jamsil Stadium in Seoul, waiting until 2 p.m. to get their iPhones — made available only to 1,000 people who raffled online for early purchases. Some 60,000 people who made online preorders over the past week will have their iPhones delivered starting Saturday, said KT, South Korea’s second largest mobile carrier. KT is ...

I have engaged Northeast Asia Open Source Software promotion Forum was formed by China, Korea and Japan governments and regional organizations for Open source software promotion. Because there were many issues of web interoperability in north east Asia, it have been hard to promote open source web browsers based on as like Gecko or Webkit engine. I and my colleagues in web standards have been activities of NEAOSS working group 3 for 3 years and we closed our activities and summarized the status of China, Japan and Korea. As following presentation was presented in 8th NEAOSS Forum in Tokyo. The ...

Daum Communications Corp. decided to give iPhone 3GS to all employees as a gift. Daum.net is 2nd internet portal site and owner of Lycos.com in US. Of course, iPhone hasn’t yet launched in South Korea. If it is released, this plan will be processed. Its plan includes 2 years guaranteed data plan. It was very big news in IT media and it about to make a big splash with its employees. As soon as iPhone launches, Daum plans to give away the highest spec iPhone 3GS to all of its employees (appx 1,000). Daum already launched two applications for video-sharing ...

Asiajin updated Japanese equivalent of western web services. You may know Japan and Korean are very different from western. It's different between Japan and Korea too. I listed up them to compare with Japan and western. Leave a comment if you want to know more or think one of these attributions is off. I) General web services Google? Naver Wikipedia? Wikipedia Korean (But, most people use Naver Dictionary) Facebook? Cyworld Flickr? No equivalent (most people used Cyworld's photo sharing.) Digg? No equivalent (startup? Mixsh? meta blogging site? Daum View, Allblog.) LinkedIn? No equivalent (rare business network but, startup? linknow and recruiting site has been developed as like Incruit.) Twitter? me2day (acquired by Naver) Youtube? Daum tvPot ...