Daum Communications

Daum Communications
Daum Communications Corp.
Type Public (KRX: 035720)
Industry Internet
Founded February 12, 1995
Headquarters Seoul, South Korea
Key people Lee, Jae Woong, (Founder)
Choi, Se Hoon (CEO)
Products Daum Cafe, Hanmail.net, Daum Search, Tistory
Revenue increase 209,997 million won (2005)
Employees 1,200 (2006)
Website www.daum.net
Daum Communications
Hangul 다음
Hanja 多音
Revised Romanization Da-eum
McCune–Reischauer Taŭm

Daum (Korean: 다음; KRX: 035720) is a web portal in South Korea, like Naver and Nate. Daum offers many Internet services to web users, including a popular free web-based e-mail, messaging service, forums, shopping and news. The word "daum" means "next" in Korean.

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.

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, daum.net or hanmail.net. After the merging, Daum started the forum service Daum Cafe which brought its firm status in the market. The term cafe and even internet cafe (Different from what is supposed to refer to in Western usage) is now used as the synonym for "Internet forum" in Korean.

From 2003, Daum started on-line direct automobile insurance by launching the subsidiary 'Daum Direct Auto Insurance' and from 2008, it became a partnership company with ERGO Insurance Group.

On August 2, 2004 Daum announced the purchase of Lycos for $95.4 million, and closed the transaction on October 6.[1] As part of a corporate restructuring to focus on mobile, social networks and location-based serves, Daum sold Lycos for $36 million in August 2010 to Ybrant Digital, an internet marketing company based in Hyderabad, India.[2]

In 2006, they started a blogging service Tistory with 'Tatter and Company'[3], a blogging platform developing company and in July 2007, Daum took over all rights to manage the services.

Daum has about 874 employees as of Mar, 2009.

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See also

  • Contemporary culture of South Korea
  • Global World Encyclopedia
  • Tistory

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