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Korean Social Media Round-up

November 26, 2010

Elsewhere in Korean social media land: Despite its problems, social commerce continues to boom in Korea. From ZDNet comes word that a deal between social commerce site Soopang and Burger King, which offered 10,000 Whopper meals for 2,900 won (instead of 6,500 won) a pop, sold out in just 20 minutes. And showing that social [...]

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The Rise of Paran: Korean Web Users Going Mobile

November 26, 2010

The round-up starts this week with a possibly very significant story about what is still, just, the smallest of Korea’s top five portals. For those who haven’t before, meet Paran. Though it has long trailed the mighty Naver, Daum, Nate and Yahoo! Korea, the last nine months, as this story in ZDNet explains, has seen [...]

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Korean Social Media Round-up

November 22, 2010

From the Korean social media news: On Interactive Dialogue & PR 2.0, Juny takes a brief look at the explosive growth of social commerce in Korea. While saying the possibilities for social commerce are “boundless” here, he cautions that there are numerous issues to be overcome.  He then leads into a series of documents and tables from [...]

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Korean Social Media/Tech Roundup

November 18, 2010

On Bloter.net comes word that KakaoTalk, the wildly successful chat app for the iPhone and Android, now has more than 3 million users. Since starting barely eight months ago, the app, which lets people chat and exchange photos one-on-one or in groups, has become such a success in its native Korea that the company is [...]

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Techy Twitterings…

November 14, 2010

In a K-pop-heavy round-up of Korean tech/social media blogs: Bloter.net has an interview with Joyce Kim, who after a stellar academic career (Cornell, Harvard, law school) decided to ditch her job as a lawyer and start up Soompi.com, a site aimed at making Korean films, soap operas and pop music more accessible to English speakers. [...]

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A More Social Approach

November 10, 2010

After having a think about the direction of this blog, I’ve come to some conclusions: 1) For it to be worthwhile, I need to update it more often and give it a more distinct identity. 2) For me to do that, I need to come up with stuff that perhaps isn’t covered in such depth [...]

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Koreans Learn to Love Twitter

October 22, 2010

A few months ago, something peculiar happened on my Twitter feed. Having only recently started using my long dormant account, I was slowly building up a list of contacts and news feeds when I got an e-mail saying that someone from my recent past in Korea was now “following” me. That, in itself, wasn’t odd, [...]

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As The Bad Workman Did With His Tools…

October 17, 2010

I blame the camera. At least, I hope I’m not entirely to blame for the pics from my recent trip to the Korea Electronics Show being so terrible. Though it wasn’t all as zippy and space age as you might expect, the show did have some cool stuff, whose visual splendour I singularly failed to [...]

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The Tale of the Late Adopter

October 10, 2010

Finally. After weeks of research and prevaricating, I finally bought my first smartphone yesterday. And what a thing of beauty it is. It may “only” be a 9000 edition BlackBerry Bold, but despite its being second-hand, it’s just four months old, has not a single scratch on it and gleams like a lovely new toy. [...]

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