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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Tuesday July 10, 2007 22:26

Online Video Market Share in Korea

I introduced various online video sharing sites in last year. Even though Korea was developed in broadband, there were mostly payable VOD and web casting sites in Korea.
The video sharing service needed high cost of network bandwidth and server systems including encoding and distribution. So most of service providers mind to enter this market. [...]

Saturday June 10, 2006 09:51

The future is in South Korea?

Business 2.0 wrote an article “The future is in South Korea” that introduced Cyworld story succeeded by broadband infrastructure including PC bang and maturing game industry.
South Korea has become the world’s best laboratory for broadband services - and a place to look to for answers on how the Internet business may evolve….Cyworld, for example, [...]

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