ROK Drop

on January 4th, 2013 at 1:03 pm

Yahoo! Officially Stops Service In South Korea

The photo taken on Dec. 31, 2012, shows the entrance of U.S. Internet company Yahoo Inc.’s South Korean unit. The same day, Yahoo halted its South Korean service after 15 years, pulling out of one of the world’s most wired countries. (Yonhap)

You can read more about this at this prior ROK Drop posting.

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  • jim
    6:48 am on January 6th, 2013 1

    i’m still not sure what keeps them in business. kind of like radio shack.

  • SmokingFreedomGuy
    7:09 pm on January 6th, 2013 2

    Well Google going all censor-nazi on filtering their image searches is going to give a boost to Yahoo for sure.

  • Jerry Foley
    4:09 pm on February 28th, 2013 3

    Well I gues this is one good reason that I departed there several months ago.

 

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