Daum's Jeju Island Global Media Center
2008/08/22 17:05The JoongAng Daily visited Daum Communication's Global Media Center offices on Jeju Island:
The first noticeable area upon entering the 13,223 square meter building is a sleek cafe and an Internet booth, in which employees chat over coffee. At first glance, one might not realize that the building houses some of the most successful communications projects in Korea, from Agora to TV Pot, a video file-searching site. It’s here that the “Blogger News” citizen journalism service originates.
Daum, Korea’s second biggest Internet portal operator, relocated a large chunk of its operations its Daum Media and Daum Net Intelligence Lab departments to Jeju Island beginning in March 2004. Daum Jeju is one of three company offices the other two are located in Seoul.
Jeju will also be host to the Lift Asia 08 conference in September:
At the end of a decade during which the internet revolutionized our lives and organizations, the network is now moving beyond the browser, invading objects, cities, toys, cars or medical devices. Where will the next big changes happen? What are the world's most innovative people working on right now?
The first truly pan-Asia web technology event. A one day conference with carefully crafted speeches and panels featuring thought leaders and doers of Asia 2.0.
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