2007/08/01 16:33
An amazing resource on social media, Web, digital technology in Korea
2007/08/01 16:33 in basic info
Today, I introduced TechnoKimchi to my Korean blog readers. Just to flex my muscle again, my Korean blog Taewoo's log has about 5,000 RSS subscribers and 4,000 daily visitors. You might ask "why are you so full of yourself?" I'd go "Aren't we living in the age of attention economy, anyways?" :)
But seriously, Asian people are "supposedly" humble. So until proved otherwise, I'll remain humble. Another ":)"
Anyhow, I'm thinking I'll probably get over 1,000 visitors today for the first time since TechnoKimchi was launched. Much traffic will be from my Korean blog. So I got even more full of myself and decided to do some more vanity search and I google for "technokimchi".
A good number of links were returned, some very interesting. Then, I came across this amazing wiki page, which very well organizes the social media, Web, digital technology in Korea. I'm not 100% sure who's behind it all, but I believe it's so valuable that it's definitely worth a PDF printout and a library-sit-down read. Even I'm learning so much from what's on the site.
Some of the interesting facts from the site (all in quotes):
But seriously, Asian people are "supposedly" humble. So until proved otherwise, I'll remain humble. Another ":)"
Anyhow, I'm thinking I'll probably get over 1,000 visitors today for the first time since TechnoKimchi was launched. Much traffic will be from my Korean blog. So I got even more full of myself and decided to do some more vanity search and I google for "technokimchi".
A good number of links were returned, some very interesting. Then, I came across this amazing wiki page, which very well organizes the social media, Web, digital technology in Korea. I'm not 100% sure who's behind it all, but I believe it's so valuable that it's definitely worth a PDF printout and a library-sit-down read. Even I'm learning so much from what's on the site.
Some of the interesting facts from the site (all in quotes):
- South Korea has a population of 49 million. 14.3 million out of the country's 15.9 million households nationwide are linked to broadband Internet connections as of May 2007. In particular, Seoul and the surrounding Gyeonggi Province posted 106.8 percent and 100.7 percent in the broadband penetration rate, respectively.
- The average person visited the internet 13.8 days a month, and spent 20.2 hours viewing 2,172 pages--below the global averages of 17.1 days, 25.2 hours, and 2,519 pages. However, South Koreans topped the world averages--with scores of 17.4 days, 31.2 hours and 4,546 pages.
- According to the new research report by ROA Group the number of mobile users in South Korea will reach 41.95 million by 2010, which is 85% of the total population.
- In South Korea, a single service (Cyworld) already has 18 million accounts—enough for 30 % of the entire country's population. The survey was done in 30 days. Within that 30 days, more than half of all Internet users in South Korea have accessed a social networking site.
- Between 2001 and 2006, the Korean online advertising market's volume grew at annualized 48 per cent compared to entire advertising market's 4.6 per cent yearly growth during the same period.
- In the event where any law suits arose from the online activities, portal operators can disclose this private information to the court. The disadvantage that this law brings about is the disruption to freedom of speech. People will feel that they are being restricted into giving their comments.
- There were many cases where teenagers had spent more than a day continuously playing computer games. Some of them eventually collapsed from exhaustion and passed away.
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