Even in this information age, the major nations and cultures of East Asia often seem inscrutable to the mainstream western press. Since mid-...

An article in The Korea Times today touches on a topic which was the subject of many earlier posts on this blog ( for example this one ), ...

I read an interesting short article in Telecoms Korea today that confirmed my thinking.  To be specific, I thought that the introduction of ...

The Korea Herald carried an article that provides some interesting detail on the changes taking place in internet search with the introduct...

NHN, the provider of South Korea's popular Naver search service, is unhappy with the smart phone market, where it claims rival Google ...

I started my newspaper reading this morning with an article in yesterday's Joongang Daily entitled "iPhone Woes for Foreigners....

The Korea Times yesterday notes that Google Korea plans to "Koreanize" its home page!   The article notes that Naver has a 66 per...

According to an article in the Korea Times today , Naver takes pride in being one of the planet's few internet companies that can claim ...

Yesterday's article in the Korea Times certainly caught my eye. Daum ( www.daum.net  ), the country's second most popular portal si...

David Pogue of the New York Times made a point in his e-column today  that reinforces what I've said in earlier posts about search, spec...

An article in the Sunday Times declares that the Russians have dented Google's world domination with their search engine Yandex.  Accor...

Google is far and away the most popular web search tool in much of the world, but not in Korea. The market leader and most widely-used searc...