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Daum announced a news section operated by blogger's articles in its own news site, Media Daum that is one of the top news aggregation service that most of Korean read online news. It consists of the section for full news articles of traditional media including TV, magazines and newspapers offered by supply contract with fee and another sections by user-generated contents with reviews of TV show(TelZone), stories of revealing truth or discussion of public petitions(Agora) and reportage of world stories (Segyen). The new service reflects of increasing blogger's media power rather than traditional media, but Daum's BloggerNews permits news publishing only ...

Ohmynews.com is very famous news media in the world, but stories are from thousands of "citizen reporters" across South Korea. The 150 or so stories posted on the site each day range from breaking news about huge protests to sophisticated political analysis, from hit pieces to tales of the daily ups and downs of people who feel ignored by established media. OhmyNews readers can offer instant feedback online and -- if they really like a piece -- monetary tips. Readers poured nearly 30 million won ($30,000) into columnist Kim Young Ok's account in increments of $10 or less in one ...