Author Archives: Taewoo Danny Kim

Naming your thingy “super” works super well in Korea

Posted on 2010/10/06

Super is the word we want to hear in Korea. Superstar K (Korean version of American Idol or Britain’s Got Talent) is setting unprecedented records for a cable TV show viewing. Hyundai Card is throwing a series of Super Matches … Continue reading →

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Why the name “TechnoKimchi”?

Posted on 2010/10/06

(This article was originally posted in 2007 here) Kimchi is the best known Korean food, which Korean people are most proud of. We simply cannot live without kimchi. It tastes really good though it stinks really bad. It’s really good … Continue reading →

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Daum is going social, too

Posted on 2010/10/04

Only a few days after Naver’s Social Manifesto, Daum, No.2 portal in Korea, also went social. Daum announced two social-related services at the press conference, which was held last week. First, it added a real-time trending bulletin board to its homepage, … Continue reading →

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Naver wants to become Korea’s Google + Apple + Facebook + AOL + …

Posted on 2010/09/29

Naver, No.1 portal/search/blog/community/email/news-aggregation service in Korea, held a press conference yesterday to shoot out some interesting and fantastic stories. (probably not as exciting as TechCrunch being bought by AOL, though. Congrats, Mike!) The first news was that Naver is integrating … Continue reading →

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Things are crazy over here!

Posted on 2010/09/28

(This post was originally written in July, 2007 on the older version of this blog and is now being reused on the WordPress platform) “Pali Pali (빨리빨리)” is known to be the first phrase which those start working in Korea … Continue reading →

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Planned: 10-Part Series on Korea + Digital + Tech

Posted on 2010/09/28

Over the last couple of years, I’ve worked on several consulting projects in various fields, ranging from social media marketing, education, trend analysis, to mobile application store strategies and B2B application suite building. I think enough time has passed for … Continue reading →

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TechnoKimchi now on WordPress

Posted on 2010/09/24

As I mentioned long long ago, TechnoKimchi is (still) going through a major overhaul and is now hosted on WordPress. My original intention in TechnoKimchi-ing on Tistory was to let the world know about this fabulous blogging tool Textcube from … Continue reading →

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