YouTube Korea is up and operating in Korea and Michael Hurt’s Seoul Glow is featured on the front page:
More on the YouTube launch in Korea from the Chosun Ilbo:
Sakina Arsiwala, international manager for YouTube, said that Korea is a very attractive market with a robust IT infrastructure. "Rather than just translate our site into Korean, we worked to localize the service so that users can see the most popular video clips in Korea as well," she said.
YouTube Korea provides online community services as well as its video-viewing service which lets users watch video clips posted by users and professional content creators around the world.
Google Korea president Lee Won-jin said, "I hope that videos created by Korean netizens will spread around the world through YouTube, causing another Korean Wave or craze for Korean pop culture."
YouTube is entering a very competitive market in Korea, so it will be very interesting to see how well they do against the established video sharing companies.Â
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11:11 am on January 25th, 2008 1
>Google Korea president Lee Won-jin said, “I hope that videos created by Korean netizens will spread around the world through YouTube, causing another Korean Wave or craze for Korean pop culture.”
Because that’s what it’s really about now isn’t it
I swear man, it’s like they’re all taught to say the exact same thing from a very small age.
9:01 am on January 26th, 2008 2
I think Mr. Lee is going to have has work cut out for him though. Google isn’t doing well in Korea because it is not Koreanized enough and I suspect YouTube probably isn’t going to do well either against the domestic competition.
9:01 am on January 28th, 2008 3
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