KoreaCrunch

David Sifry, CEO of Technorati announced analysis for the blogosphere. According to results, japanese and chinese blogs are increasing and over english blog. But, there are not no korean part in blogosphere as measured by Technorati. David wrote that Korean blogs are not tracked by Technorati and that Korean blogs are grossly underrepresented. David explained it mostly dues to the fact that the largest Korean blog and hompy services (like Cyworld or Planet Weblog) are not being indexed by Technorati at this time. Why don't korean blogs indexed by them? Cyworld doesn't offer RSS and permalink. But, there are many bloggers ...

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 ...

Fon Korea launched in Jun. 10th in Korea. FON is the largest WiFi community in the world, open to anyone who wishes to unite and connect to the Internet for free from any corner of the world without cables. It's very significant warning for most of broadband providers in Korea. As you know, there are many wireless access point in home and work as well as you can catch them in any streets in Seoul. Fon Korea also announced to sell Buffalo WHR-G54S enabled Fon firmware for 5 dollars with limit of 1,000. Korean bloggers congratulates Fon Korea Blog to launch ...

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, is a social network owned by a subsidiary of SK Telecom, the country's largest wireless provider. To an American eye, the Cyworld service looks like a mixture of some of the hottest US properties: it's MySpace meets Flickr and Blogger and AIM and Second Life. Users ...