Re-igniting the Korean Web Chang Kim @ TEDx Seoul 2009
Re-igniting the Korean Web
Chang Kim @ TEDx Seoul 2009
1997-2003
Korea = Innovation Engine
Dialpad
Cyworld
And virtual goods economy
Ohmynews
Knowledge iN
MMORPG
Also: Professional gaming league
Wibro
“Venture Culture”
Fast forward to 2009
Porals and Walled Garden
IE monoculture, Active X
“Cyber exiles”
Piracy
How “K-Wave” got inflicted by piracy
Wireless Korea?
Expensive mobile internet plansiPhone = “Next month phone”
App store by… everyone
Any signs of hope?
Globalization
Small yet meaningful signs
Attempts for “Open”
Naver, Daum
Mobile Web
LGT Oz
E-learning
Screen golf
Interesting amalgamation of online + offline
Brick-and-mortar cases
Cases of brick-and-mortar businesses embracing the
“Web 2.0”