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Daum Communications Corp.

Type	Public (KOSDAQ: 035720)
Founded	12th, February 1995
Headquarters	Seoul, South Korea
Key people	Lee, Jae Woong, (Founder & CEO) Seok, Jong Hoon (CEO)
Industry	Internet
Products	DaumCafe, Hanmail.net, MediaDaum, DaumBlog, D&Shop,Daum Direct1
Revenue	$17.5 million USD (2004)
Employees	1,200 (2006)
Website	www.daum.net

Daum.net (October 12, 2006)

Daum (Korean: 다음; KOSDAQ: 035720) is a popular web portal in South Korea, with its rival Naver. Daum offers many Internet services to web users, including a popular free web-based e-mail, messaging service, forums, shopping and news. Image File history File links Daum_logo. ... A public company is a company owned by the public rather than by a relatively few individuals. ... KOSDAQ is a stock market in Korea that was established in 1996. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Seoul (SÅul[1] ì„œìš¸) is the capital and largest city of South Korea (Republic of Korea). ... Daum Direct1 is The Koreas Automobile Insurance companies. ... Revenue is a U.S. business term for the amount of money that a company earns from its activities in a given period, mostly from sales of products and/or services to customers. ... Image File history File links Green_Arrow_Up. ... The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This page as shown in the AOL 9. ... Screenshot from the website Daum. ... Screenshot from the website Daum. ... October 12 is the 285th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (286th in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... KOSDAQ is a stock market in Korea that was established in 1996. ... A web portal is a site on the World Wide Web that typically provides personalized capabilities to its visitors, providing a pathway to other content. ... Naver (Hangul:ë„¤ì´ë²„) is the # 1 web portal in South Korea. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... A screenshot of PowWow, one of the first instant messengers with a graphical user interface Instant messaging is the act of instantly communicating between two or more people over a network such as the Internet. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Online shopping is the process consumers go through to purchase products or services over the internet. ... News is any new information or current events. ...

The popularity of Daum is a reflection of the high level of internet use in South Korea. The country has the highest level of broadband users, and one of the most widespread levels of computer and Internet access. Broadband in telecommunications is a term which refers to a signaling method which includes or handles a relatively wide range of frequencies which may be divided into channels or frequency bins. ...

The popularity of Daum stems from the range of services it offers, but also from the fact that it was the first Korean web portal of significant size. Its popularity started when it merged with the then most popular e-mail service, hanmail.net. After the merging, daum started the forum service DaumCafe which brought its firm status in the market. The term cafe is now used as the synonym for "Internet forum" in Korean. A web portal is a site on the World Wide Web that typically provides personalized capabilities to its visitors, providing a pathway to other content. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

On August 2, 2004 Daum announced the purchase of Lycos for $95.4 million, and closed the transaction on October 6. [1] August 2 is the 214th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (215th in leap years), with 151 days remaining. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lycos is an Internet search engine and web portal. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Virgin Islands, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 3. ... October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in leap years). ...

Daum has about 1,200 employees as of June, 2006^[2]. June is the sixth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with a length of 30 days. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

1 See also
2 External links
- 2.1 Corporate
- 2.2 Notes and references

External links

Corporate

Daum Main Homepage
Blog Main Homepage
Planet Main Homepage
Daum Cafe Homepage
Daum Search Homepage
Hanmail Homepage

Notes and references

↑ Yahoo! Korea news; June 12, 2005

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	Daum was the longest serving active faculty member at The University of Akron (UA).
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	Daum was preceded in death by his brother, Robert (1978), his father, Forrest (1981), and his mother, Rebecca (1992).

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