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	From Editor
	First thanks for your great interest on our First issue of our Korean Insight. I do appreciate very much on you responses/feedbacks/supports/commendations. In return, I will try to endeavor to fulfill your ideas. Also I am glad that thanks to our last newsletter I was able to interact with many professionals in TMT sector globally. I do hope this News Letter can keep its words as being the Window to Korean Technology/Media/Telecom sector. Lastly I want to share one thing with you. Recently I have appeared on Wall Street Journal commenting on Korea’s mobile enabled video services. If you or any one of your contacts wants commentary on Korean market, I am happy to do so. Read more in WSJ Article #1 , Article #2 Yours Yunho Chung Managing Partner, Veyond Partners

Topic of the Week

	Duty of loading WIPI is released, is iPhone really comming to Korea? December 11th, 2008

	WIPI is the wireless internet platform only used in Korean market, so global company such as Nokia, Apple, and RIM doesn’t load WIPI on their phones. From next April, phones not loading WIPI, Korean Wireless Internet Standard Platform, such as Apple’s iPhone and RIM’s Blackberry could be sold in Korean market. Korean Communications Commisions announced that they will release the duty of loading WIPI on mobile phone in Korean market. >>Read more

Trend and Issue

Why Mobile TV is going down in Korea? December 10th, 2008

The world’s first Mobile TV, SDMB, was launched in 2004 followed by TDMB in 2005. Mobile TV was expected to make ‘Mobile Broad Casting’ popular and thus people were watching on how it went.

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AION, could be next Lineage for NCsoft ?
December 8th, 2008

As I posted before, Korean online game is really advanced. There are 3 major companies in Korean online game market, NHN, Nexon, and NCsoft.Among them, especially NCsoft has their edge at MMORPG.

You know which web service is most poplular in Korea ? If you look at Korean internet service dynamics a little bit, you can easily find that Google is not #1 in Korea, though it is Global #1.

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Tested T-Login, SK Telecom’s WiBro Service
December 8th, 2008

I recently started to subscribe T-Login, SK Telecom’s WiBro service. Followings are some pictures of T-login modem and screenshots for installing and using WiBro, T-login.

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Internet Map Service War - Who’s gonna be winner ?
December 11th, 2008

It seems Korean major internet portals decided to make their map service as the new force to growth.
Naver(www.naver.com), No.1 Internet Portal in Korea, launched ‘Photo Street’, showing photos of downtown and direct call service to make reservation of selected place.

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Business in Korea

The first company Google bought in Korea - TNC
December 10th, 2008

These days, It is quite easy to find that global IT companies bought Korean companies. I posted that EA Korea has acquired Korean Game Developer named J2M. Also last month US Media company, Lifetime Networks acquired Roiworld(www.roiworld.com) which is famous for its fashion game targeting teenager girls.

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