There was the Web 2.0 Summit that connects the leaders and technologists opening
the Web’s business opportunities. But, conference attendance was limited to maintain an intimate setting and foster dialogue among all participants. General attendee registration for the Web 2.0 Conference was by invitation only. So many people didn’t go to web2summit.

Fortunately some of korean people attended conference and let us know atmosphere and stories of conference such as Web2.0Korea.org, Openmaru and Mtgear.net in korean. After that, someone wanted to hear real voices from participators and discuss topics for korean business environments. So Web2Talk Seoul was suggested by Channy Yun.

Web2Talk Seoul was held in Daum Communications on Nov. 16th. Over 40 people were attended in this meeting. Dr. Sangu Cho, KT spoke the overview of web2con with photos and video clips. After his speech, there was panel discussion with Mr. Kangjun Lee, Softbank Ventures and Mr. Jaeseung Noh, Samsung Electornics.

They reached the conclusion that major interests of conference was the “search” and “video” and their monetization. Maybe this is originated by success of Google and YouTube. Of course, it’s almost same of korean business trends. Many of korean internet sites focused on video services by UCC(User-created Content) meaning of UGC.