Prestigious Financial Times included an article today about the Korean search market. Korea is, as you may already know, not “googlearized” as most other search markets in the world. Instead is Naver the leading portal. Actually, the article states that Naver now is the fifth biggest portal in the world. In Korea, 77 % of […]
Four years before Second Life was launched and achieved success, a Korean service called Dada World with similar features was launched. Unfortunately did it fail and went under in the IT bubble but also for being ahead of its time in many ways. The project was led by a professor of Kwang Woon university who […]
A Korean gaming news website published results of a survey among young internet users. The survey has been conducted by two websites www.Puppyred.com and www.ontooniverse.com among 86.000 surfers aged 8-13. Puppyred.com is something like Second Life for children, whereas Ontooniverse.com is a website of a cable TV program comparable to Cartoon Network. Despite a likely […]
SK Telecom has announced that user number of “Mobile Cyworld” users has exceeded 1 million, being far ahead of other mobile services like Mobile Daum Café (0.14 million) or Mobile Naver Blog (0.1 million). At the same time the average monthly page view of mobile CyWorld is 350 million which results in the fact that […]
Recently the National Internet Development Agency of Korea conducted a survey about mobile internet usage among 3000 Koreans aged 12-59. In the last year approx. 27% of all participants used mobile internet at least once a month and 22% used their mobile to access it. Moreover Koreans use mobile internet quite long, with almost 40% […]
Just like many Asian markets Korea also has its local champions which are preferred by users over Western giants. As you might know naver.com is by far the most popular search engine in Korea, another example is the NateOn messenger which according to Koreanclick.com has approximately twice as many users as MSN (13 million vs. […]
Lately gaming has received significant attention as an emerging multi billion dollar business. PricewaterhouseCoopers expects the video game industry in Asia/Pacific which is the largest market to grow by 10% annually from 11.7 billion USD in 2006 to 18.8 billion USD by 2011 excluding spending on hardware and possible revenues from in-game advertising. So although […]
As I have mentioned not long ago, I am forced to constantly move from one place to another due to the nature of my current position. If you are in the same situation as I am or simply want to save internet service costs, I introduce to you “Windy 31”, a portable USB like wireless […]
Web 2.0 refers to a second generation of web-based communities which allows users to participate and share amongst themselves.
User Generated Contents (UGC), a part of Web 2.0 concept, is so popular these days. Just go to sites such as YouTube. You will see millions of videos uploaded and viewed by millions of people from around […]
Cyworld, Korean based social networking service, is the one of the most successful ones in the world. In the past, PC and proper internet access were required to use Cyworld. However, today’s cutting edge mobile technology actually extends its reach to everyone’s pocket. In other words, we can ubiquitously access to Cyworld with our mobile […]
