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 […]
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. […]
Eye on South Korea by CNN
One thing which struck us recently is the global attention the Korean TMT sector is beginning to get. Recently CNN has conducted a series called “Eye on South Korea” with interesting articles and video clips about topics like CyWorld, next generation mobile handsets and “a day in the (digital) life […]
This August, I am speaking at iMobicon 2007 on the landscape of ‘Korean Social Networking and Mobile TV’. If you are not familiar with iMobicon, it is an international conference organized by Informa only focuing on Korean Mobile industry.
Most major mobile related companies will participate such as SK Telecom, KTF,Cyworld and many more.
You can find […]
Cyworld, which is a Korean social network site, has been introduced on an American university text book published in this February as a world wide famous social online community service.
The name of the book is “Information Systems Today : Managing in the Digital World” published by the Prentice Hall. This book is used to deliver […]
This is an intersting article on what South Korea can provide to the rest of the world written by Business 2.0.
The future is in South Korea
Smart investments in broadband there have paid off in the form of a hyperconnected society — here’s how we can start reaping the benefits.
By Chris Taylor, Business 2.0 Magazine […]
Cyworld or simply CY (Similar to Blog but more close to the concept of Web 2.0) has been one of the most successful merger of SK Telecom (or SK Communications if to say accuratley) has ever made so far and it actually creates ‘substantial’ revenue.
CY has been a really interesting social phenomenon in Korea for […]
