Daum Communications Corp.

Type	Public (KOSDAQ: 035720)
Founded	February 1995
Location	Seoul, South Korea
Key people	Jaewoong Lee, Founder & CEO
Industry	Internet
Products	DaumCafe, Hanmail.net, CUVE, MediaDaum, d&shop, oismusic, flexus music, media 2.0
Revenue
Employees	{{{num_employees}}}
Website	www.daum.net

Daum.net (August 31, 2005)

Daum (Korean: 다음) (KOSDAQ: 035720) is the most popular web portal in South Korea. The 3^rd (as of August 8, 2005) most popular website in the world according to Alexa, it offers a number of web services to web users, including a popular free web-based e-mail, messaging service, forums, shopping and news. A public company is a company owned by the public. ... KOSDAQ is a stock market in Korea that was established in 1996. ... February is the second month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Seoul (서울,   listen?) is the capital of South Korea and is one of the most populous cities in the world, located in the northwestern part of the country on the Han River. ... For the tax agency in the UK of the same name , see HM Revenue and Customs. ... Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... The front page of the English Wikipedia website. ... Screenshot from the website Daum. ... Screenshot from the website Daum. ... August 31 is the 243rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (244th in leap years), with 122 days remaining, as the final day of August. ... 2005(MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... KOSDAQ is a stock market in Korea that was established in 1996. ... A web portal is a web site that provides a starting point, a gateway, or portal, to other resources on the Internet or an intranet. ... August 8 is the 220th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (221st in leap years), with 145 days remaining. ... 2005(MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The front page of the English Wikipedia website. ... Alexa Internet is California-based subsidiary company of Amazon. ... 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. ... Look up Forum on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Forum (plural fora or forums) is a public meeting place for discussion or lecture. ... News is essentially 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 general refers to data transmission where multiple pieces of data are sent simultaneously to increase the effective rate of transmission. ...

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 web site that provides a starting point, a gateway, or portal, to other resources on the Internet or an intranet. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

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Daum has about 800 employees as of June 12, 2005^[1]. June 12 is the 163rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (164th in leap years), with 202 days remaining. ... 2005(MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

See also

• Contemporary culture of South Korea

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External link

• Daum.net

Notes and references

1. ^  Yahoo! Korea news; June 12, 2005