News Roundup
2008/03/23 13:01Korea is set for another round of elections to elect members to the National Assembly. Korean portals have started to setup election sites for their users:
The two largest portals Naver and Daum said they will open the election service later this month when the candidates for the National Assembly are all set. Smaller competitors such as Yahoo and Paran have already launched their services consisting of news articles, candidate profiles, promotion videos and poll results.
SK Telecom will be set to continue their buying spree of content companies with news coming out about a purchase of a Chinese video game firm:
SK Telecom has rolled up its sleeves to enter the Chinese video game market. An SK Telecom executive said Wednesday that the company has formed a task force and is working to acquire a Chinese game company.
The Korean company has turned its eyes to Chinese gamers as the game market in the world's most populous country is growing at a breathtaking rate.
NCsoft which had to recently deny that they were diversifing outside of video games will be reorganizing to better support their non-video games operations:
NCsoft is organizing a team to lead the sales and marketing of non-game Internet businesses such as online identification and social-networking services, an official said. It has also contacted a mid-career journalist from Chosun Ilbo, the largest daily newspaper in Korea, to take charge of the strategic affairs of the Internet service operation.
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