News Roundup
2009/03/20 09:47Some Korean bloggers are under scrutiny as more companies are receiving free products and payments in exchange for a review on their site:
About 20 bloggers participated in TNM’s recent marketing events with Samsung Electronics, where they were given some of the company’s latest mobile-phone models in exchange for a promised number of columns on their blogs.
Chosun Ilbo: The Brave New World of Online Part-Time Marketing (May 23, 2008)
Artpoli launched the English version of their art e-commerce site:
Artpoli is an open community and marketplace for arts. We are based in Korea, and it was quite natural that we started with Korean artists. And because established artists have relationships with art galleries, it was also natural that we attracted artists who are not known.
Korean police are investigating three users of Daum’s Agora discussion board for using programs to boost the hit counts for their articles:
“Investigators found they used a computer program to artificially boost the number of hits on the particular postings [at Agora],” Jang Kwan-seung, the investigator in charge of the case, said in a press briefing yesterday. “In a computer [confiscated from one suspect], police found a hit count booster program.”
The police are also trying to track down pirates uploading copies of a popular independent movie here in Korea:
The producer, Koh Young-jae, lodged a petition with police Monday for the probe into the illegal uploading.
He claimed in the petition that illegal copies of the film have spread through several peer-to-peer sites since Feb. 27, demanding police find and punish the first uploader.
