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There is another example of broadband effects in Korea. Traditional radios have depended on letters, post cards by listeners who drive a car and work in office or out. In Korea, there were unique listeners such as teenage girls studied in night. As internet users were increased, it has lost powers the conventional media such as newspaper, TV and radio. But, radio newly changed by internet trends. As you know, korean are good at streaming music by broadband. So internet radio services make own steaming players tuned radio. The KBS has KBS kong broadcasts 7 channels and MBC miniM does ...

Lycos owned by korean internet portal, Daum announced new email service with 3GB storage. This is the top of email stroage in the world. In future Lycos will up the limit to 5 GB of storage. With the new LYCOS Mail, users can now email photos, videos, music files and more in one message. Big storage will be useful to broadband users treated mutimedia files. Lycos outsourced an email service to Outblaze till now. Last year, Daum started to develope the new email service and finished it with Lycos team well. In fact, Daum has been most famous free email ...

Web 2.0 Business Workshop Korea will be held in July 27th by Korea.internet.com. This conference focused on business examples and application on web services since first web 2.0 conference. As followings are a list of session programs. - Key success factors of Web2.0 Business Model (Prof. Junki Lee, Yonsei Univ.) - Spotlight: Video 2.0 and business strategy Beedeo.com (Yongjun Hyeong, CEO of Einfra Networks) - Business values of Web 2.0 economics (Kukhyun Kim, IBM Korea) - Spotlight: Life 2.0 and business strategy Olaworks (Junghee Ryu, CEO of Olaworks) - Google Business Eco-system (Dr. Jaesun Han, KAIST) - Spotlight: Travel 2.0 and business strategy Wingbus (Jonghwa Kim, CEO ...

The Web2.0 Hub Beta was released June 27th. It was originated Google SIG at KAIST managed by Dr. Jaesun Han. Some of KASIT students has studied Web 2.0 and Google. In result, they decided to make a hub and community site amang Web 2.0 geeks. It contains a brief introduction of Web 2.0 for general people, web2pedia in korean that defines and gathers articles for each keyword such as "Ajax", "RSS" and "Tag". Also it provides web 2.0 issue tracker as like digg.com, news blog, forum and event scheduler. If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Han.

I went to a business trip in US from Jun. 10th to Jun. 15th, 2006. This trip is for attending 5th Ebay Developers Conference in Las Vegas and Where 2.0 Conference in San Jose. Ebay Developers Conference I'm technical evangelist in Daum Communications owned Lycos.com. We have a platform strategy in communications, contents and commerce. We have number one properties in each area in Korea. It's similar with Ebay. I wanted to learn Ebay's developer support system and feel real scenes in spot. I was impressed for Ebay's developers to greet participators with loud applause when we enter a conference place in ...

KT, the country's largest fixed-line operator, and SK Telecom, the largest mobile phone service provider, both began commercial services of KT WiBro and 3G+ HSDPA, a homegrown portable Internet service. WiBro, short for wireless broadband, enables users to access the Internet at the speed of fixed-line connections through portable devices such as laptops or personal digital assistants. The mobile reception is reportedly seamless even when moving at speeds up to 100 kilometers (62 miles) per hour. But, WiBro will only be available for laptops and PDA. Those who wish to try the service can buy a card at KT or SK ...

As like Logo 2.0 part, I made snapshot of korean web 2.0 logo-type. You can see all profiles of web 2.0 companies in Korea. Updated.Korean Web 2.0 Lists

Welcome to the koreacrunch.com renamed my old blog of "Channy's Web 2.0 in Korea". This blog was my priavte blog in english because, as you know, it's my poor english. In fact, there were small stories until Jan. Oneday Mr. Adam Kightley ask me why I didn't update my blog. Wow, there was a reader! I was very impressed for his comment. I am very happy to hear that you will write something in English again soon. I know it can be hard work to write in another language, so I am very grateful for any effort you make. I ...