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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

New figures from local consulting company SCOTOSS show how Koreans are continuing to move away from traditional media toward the internet. More than that, they indicate an online shift is also under way: from e-mail to a greater use of SNS sites, in particular Facebook and Twitter. From left to right, this graph shows the changes… Continue Reading

SNS advertising is poised to take off in Korea, reports today’s edaily, with Koreans fast recognizing the potential of its so-called “one-man ads.” An ideal time, then, for the appearance of a new, streamlined ad service called AdbyMe, which promises to make it easier for Korean firms (or anyone else) to create and distribute ads… Continue Reading

As Richard posted earlier, Evan Williams, the co-founder of Twitter, was in Seoul today giving a press conference about why “Twitter Loves Korea,” and how it plans to requite the phenomenal popularity it has enjoyed here over the last 12 months.  In what was a fairly brief speech — with even the “we love… Continue Reading

We finally get to say it officially… Twitter launches services in Korea! Couple pics from the Press Conference in Seoul this morning at the Banyan Tree Spa and Resort. ——————————————————— Official Twitter Korean services launched: –  Korean language version available via Twitter.com – SMS to tweet now officially available using hashtag #1234 (via local telecom… Continue Reading

Ok, so Korea’s number one portal and infamously actively closed-off, walled-garden, Naver.com (NHN),  now prominently displays  a most recent Twitter feed  in its famous/influential user profiles (those with Twitter accounts of course).   I couldn’t find a similar feed for those with me2day accounts, but that could be just me. (let me know!) I don’t know… Continue Reading

In mid-March, a YouTube video made a big buzz among the Korean Twitter users. It was a video of a girl singing and playing Beyoncé’s “Irreplaceable” with various musical apps in 3 iPhones. She had been known as “iPhone-nyuh”(“nyuh” means “girl” in Korean) at that time, And the link of the video spread really fast via Twitter… Continue Reading