KoreaCrunch

A Korean famous blogger, Danny Kim started new blog TechnoKimchi to write on digital generation in Asia especially focused on Korea young people enjoyed wired life. His Korean blog has over 5,000 subscribers and popular to Web 2.0 mania. He studied in Cornell University and worked in Samsung SDS as a system engineer. Recently he took decisive action to quit his job and swings to full time blogger after his brave journey. He wrote why he starts new blog as followings: But, here's what's important. The gap between the young generation in East and West is closing. The reason is ...

Who does search the keyword of "Web 2.0" in the world? Surprisingly it was Korean according to a result of Google Trends in 2006. Of course, South Korea and Seoul were also highly ranked in this period. But, I thought it was bias caused by the result of rare ordinary people. (Google is just under 2% market share in here- most of technical guys only have used Google. In result, Google Trends might fix this bias after issuing of this fact. Recently I reviewed search trends of "Web 2.0", more surprisingly it was Taiwan and India. In recent period in 2006~2007, ...

It's one of episodes in Seoul Digital Forum. I think SDF was very expensive conference as much as Web 2.0 Summit, but it was based on free invitation only. Chris Anderson's speech was impressed me too, in fact I met him and heard his long tail speech in Ebay Developer Conference in last year. But this speech offered very good insights in media area specially old media and advertisement market. You can watch a clip of this speech via Youtube In speech, I was very impressed on marketing strategy of Wired.com via 1) Reach (Generate traffic by ...

Eric Schmidt CEO of Google gave a special speech in Seoul Digital Forum. Check out my brief coverage. After speech, one of attendance asked to him what he think about Web 3.0. He said web 2.0 is marketing term, but he indicated there is new trends in view of web applications. His view of web applications are very simple, easy, everywhere virus groups to treat all of data. Some people said Web 3.0 is completion of semantic web (automated intelligence by computers), but I think web is very cultural resources made by human, so the next web is the cultural-hybrid web ...

The web 2.0 boomup unerringly reached in Korea in early 2006 from Silicon Valley. It is pregnant for me as a technical issue such as open standards and open source with the participation and distributed web contents as a platform. But, many people thought it's another marketing term to sell as like dot-com bubble. So they highly criticized very expensive conference organizers and invited speakers to talk about Web 2.0. In Korea, many people web 2.0 is not new one any more because Korean web sites already have induced user-participated services such as Iloveschool (Korean Facebook), Cyworld (Korean MySpace ...

Do you want to know Microsoft web strategy in Korea? It's chance that The ReMIX Korea was held on June. 19th by Microsoft Korea. Remix is after event in the world sharing local experiences and results of Mix 2007 in Vegas of this year. Especially it was free for all IT industry people, so over 800 people was attended this event. This event is very similar format with MIX 07 to avoid formal type. It gave various program such as talk show, panel discussion and meetup of attendance with speaker The main agenda of this event was Microsoft Sliverlight too. Mr. ...

Flickr launched new localization service with 7 languages including Korean on June 13th. It seems that was supported by Yahoo! Korea's production team, but is it possible to return Flickr from Cyworld users? Maybe not. Already most people has shared their photos Naver Photo as well Cyworld. Anyway I'm very glad to see korean Flickr as an user. Skype was promoted by Auction, the branch of Ebay in Korea. Most of Korean don't know what Skype is. There are many messaging solutions in Korea such as high usages of moblie phone & SMS, instant messaging with Nateon Messenger offering free ...

Naaroo.com is public on May. 15. Naaroo.com, RSS based blog search engine was released. Many IT opinion leaders have been interested in new search engine after exit of 1noon. Revu 2.0 on May. 14 Revu has been changed from review search to social shopping service in this upgrade. It focused on shopping recommendation based on social knowledges. New features are peer communication, recommendation and feedback for popular items and sharing of picklist and wishlist. Olalog Beta 2 on May. 23 Olalog started closed beta 2 service too. It added friends group managing based on face matching and detecting and photo sharing ...