It appears that Korea’s biggest Twitter is skating sensation Kim Yu-na:

People would know that a Web service has arrived for real when it reaches even North Korea whose state-run Korean Central News Agency recently starting to provide news feeds in “tweets” ? possibly the ultimate compliment.

And it looks like Twitter is becoming hip among South Korean online users, who are known for rarely venturing out from the familiar, feature heavy services provided by domestic Internet companies.

Twitter couldn’t have found a better spokesperson to generate interest here. Kim Yu-na, the immensely popular figure skating athlete, television commercial queen and perhaps the only personality who has a prayer for competing with the late-Roh Moo-hyun in local search word counts, recently became Twitter’s most famous Korean user.   [Korea Times via Extra Korea!]

You can follow Kim Yu-na at www.twitter.com/Yunaaaa.  She currently has nearly 6,000 people following her updates.  She updates about every other day and her English is quite good.

I may not be as cool as Kim Yu-na, but you can follow me on Twitter as well at www.twitter.com/GIKorea.  I found Twitter to be a valuable resource for finding stories to post here.  So everyone sending me articles over Twitter keep sending them.