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By: MySpace shuts down Korean office - Home

MySpace shuts down Korean office - Home — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:24:15 +0000

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By: Thursday, February 5, 2009

Thursday, February 5, 2009 — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:36:20 +0000

[...] It looks like MySpace is struggling to get a foothold in the South Korean market [...]

By: MySpace Struggles In Korea, Shuts Down Regional Office | Korean Insight

MySpace Struggles In Korea, Shuts Down Regional Office | Korean Insight — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:14:18 +0000

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By: MySpace Shuts Korean Operation... Why?

MySpace Shuts Korean Operation... Why? — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:02:35 +0000

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By: yunho

yunho — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:57:58 +0000

MySpace’s closure in Korea clearly reveales that foreign players should have strong local strategy. Unlike MySpace, YouTube is perfoming very well.
So just forget Korea? It’s a too good market to get many intersting ideas creating new opportunites.

By: Social Networking Watch

Social Networking Watch — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:56:01 +0000

MySpace Shuts Down Regional Office In Korea…

TECH CRUNCH — Feb 5 — MySpace will be closing its Korean satellite office by end of the month though its Korean portal will continue to operate and will be maintained by staff in the company’s other Asian offices. Korea……

By: happy links friday. «

happy links friday. « — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:22:27 +0000

[...] Koreans are totally over MySpace — The social networking site is shutting down its Korean offices, in part because they could not compete with the pre-MySpace/”big in Korea” site, Cyworld, where up to 90% (!!) of twentysomething Koreans are members. Oh, Korea. Sometimes, I don’t get you but I love your barbecue and pickled vegetables. [...]

By: Anu

Anu — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:32:19 +0000

Now that they have tried expanding and it hasn’t panned out. I think that MySpace/News Corp should think about buying social networking sites in this down turn. They can really get economies of scale and take over share from Yahoo as the portal of choice of the world…

By: ironyjk's me2DAY

ironyjk's me2DAY — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:06:47 +0000

iron의 생각…

MySpace Struggles In Korea, Shuts Down Regional Office…

By: Shawn

Shawn — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 07:16:26 +0000

everybody is ahead of us economical wise

By: peter

peter — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 03:20:37 +0000

my god, i dont think we need a website to find out where korea is

By: KoreaCrunch

KoreaCrunch — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:51:26 +0000

Myspace closes Korean version…

Myspace Korean version officially will be closed in Feb. 18th. According to news media, Korean branch was managed by Fox Interactive, but it will be shut down in Korea too.

Myspace was launched Korean version in very enthusiastically in Apr. 15th, 20…

By: Futurize Korea

Futurize Korea — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:17:03 +0000

Another thought.. Korea has a huge population of yong people studying abroad and when they come back they’re more likely to come back with a Facebook account than a MySpace page. And while CyWorld had a huge following, their usage seems to be dropping so it’s hard to see that as a reason for their failure. Too niche and not enough money to market.

Google shows signs they’ll gain share in Korea… two signs: they bought a Korean blogging platform and have a free WiFi promotion with Starbucks locations.

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Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:07:47 +0000

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By: lulzy

lulzy — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:34:46 +0000

They clearly forgot to integrate starcraft into myspace

By: Will Cartwright

Will Cartwright — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:21:25 +0000

MySpace is dying. They are laying off people nonstop.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:35:36 +0000

90% market share is a foothold? Some sleuth.

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Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:22:18 +0000

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By: links for 2009-02-05 « 個人的な雑記

links for 2009-02-05 « 個人的な雑記 — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:02:34 +0000

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By: Shawn

Shawn — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:17:59 +0000

I wonder if Facebook will take a hit

By: KoreaLocator.com

KoreaLocator.com — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:14:22 +0000

more layoffs disquised as a shut down?

By: MySpace cierra oficinas en Corea del Sur. ¿El principio del ocaso? | Comunidad en la Red

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:13:28 +0000

[...] entero, vía TechCrunch, que MySpace anuncia el cierre de sus oficinas en Corea, dada la incapacidad de competir con la [...]

By: yu

yu — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:12:17 +0000

Have to admit we are a hard market to crack. But people who stick will learn a lot. -I’m korean.

By: Jinhyung Ahn

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:23:43 +0000

Note that Koreans have totally different and distinct cultural preference from US users. Just translating US website including facebook, myspace and google won’t bring any Korean users. Also, it is interesting that Koreans, who are notorious for copyright infringement for music, games and other softwares, have been very willing to pay for background music for their profile page on Cyworld. Cyworld took advantage of its adeptness in Korean market and created its original way to create revenue.

By: Dimitri

Dimitri — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:48:39 +0000

Like people say, if you want to see what COULD work elsewhere online, check out what Korea is up to first and then adapt it to the local market. The Koreans (CyWorld) were ahead of us years before social networking sites like Friendster caught on here, and Korea’s Naver.com portal was one of the early adopters, if not the first to corporately launch its “collective wisdom” platform; done years before we had the web 2.0 movement here in the states and elsewhere. Check out how they were leveraging mobile phones a few years ago and we are finally getting on track home here in the U.S.