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Who hosted the first “Korea Facebook Developers Meetup” in Korea? Seoul Space! We were proud to have Facebook Korea ask us to help with their first event in Asia to reach out to the Korean developers community. On July 12th, 2011 the Korea Facebook team (Dyne Lee, Growth Manager Korea, and Gyyoung Kim, Partner Engineer)… Continue Reading

  Meet the Korea Facebook Team at the first Official “Korea Facebook Developers Meetup”! 한국에서 처음으로 페이스북 코리아 팀과 함께하는 공식적인 “Korea Facebook 개발자 모임”에 놀러오세요.   Here are the details /세부내용은 다음과 같습니다: Time:  Tuesday, July 12 · 7:30pm – 9:30pm Location: 서울스페이스  - 벤처 인큐베이터 // 서울시 강남구 논현동 61-6번지 3층 **(Due to high… Continue Reading

Korea’s quest for homegrown social media success continues with a new site called Showfar. Calling itself a “micro-cafe,” Showfar aims to take the basic format of Korea’s online cafes, make them more egalitarian, and also throw in the advantages of social media services. Though perhaps not as hip as they once were, “cafes” are the still… Continue Reading

A new survey from Nielsen Korea shows that more than 8 in 10 Korean netizens use or have used social media. This compares with around 64 percent of all internet users in the US. Broken down more precisely, 82.8 percent of respondents said they either use or have used social media, of whom 74.9 percent cited Cyworld,… Continue Reading

From Bloter and IT Today comes news of a new domestic SNS contender called Helizet. Though Korea’s internet is littered with the graves of ill-fated start-ups, Helizet has been catching media attention for three reasons: 1) a boss with previous experience at Cyworld, Daum and Yahoo; 2) a user base that’s leaped from 100,000 to more than 500,000… Continue Reading

Of all Korea’s internet quirks, perhaps none has raised both domestic and international hackles like the real-name system. Implemented, at least in part, to curb the worst excesses of anonymous netizens in Korea, it has led to accusations of “big brother” politics at home, and saw YouTube (which was unwilling to have its Korean site submit to the… Continue Reading

As reported yesterday on Bloter and elsewhere, Groupon, the grand-daddy of social commerce, is opening for business in Korea on the 14th of this month. As Richard Choi has written before, Groupon will be entering a market where social commerce is already fiercely competitive. From practically nothing at the beginning of 2010, social commerce was worth more… Continue Reading

I recently wrote a post looking at the contrasting fortunes of Google and Korea’s tottering SNS giant Cyworld. As much as anyone, I was very sceptical that Cyworld could regain its swagger in Korea, let alone succeed in its second attempt to crack social media markets overseas. But some recent articles in the Digital Daily and the Hanguk… Continue Reading