Korea

Korean Regulatory Issues For IPTV Solved; New Launches Expected - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 24 Jul 2006 10:08 AM PST

South Korean regulators have resolved a long-standing dispute over IPTV, over who should regulate/oversee it...The Korean Broadcasting Commission and the Ministry of Information & Communication each had claimed the right…

Wired News Site Sold Back To Conde Nast For $25 Million; Lycos Still Owns HotBot/Hotwired - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 11 Jul 2006 04:08 PM PST

This has been in the works for a long, long time now...and finally the online and print sides of the eponymous Wired brand unite, after an eight-year separation. And yes,…

Yahoo Takes 10 Percent Stake on Korean Online Retailed GMarket; IPO Filed in U.S. - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 06 Jun 2006 05:07 PM PST

Yahoo has bought a 10 percent stake in Korea’s biggest online retailer GMarket, for an undisclosed amount. This stake was held by VC firm Oak Investment Partners. Oak is the…

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Warner Music To Merge Korean Operations With SK Telecom; Mobile Music Focus - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 09 May 2006 03:07 PM PST

So Korean operators SK Telecom and KTF are on their path of buying mainstream entertainment companies, and this one is the most signifcant of them all: Warner Music Group will…

Korean Rumors: Yahoo Selling; Google Buying - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 06 Apr 2006 10:05 PM PST

Two rumors coming out of Korea, coincidentaly two of the biggest portals around: Yahoo and Google. -- Yahoo: Yahoo is denying a rumor in a local newspaper that it is…

MLBAM Licenses Exclusive S. Korean Internet, Wireless Rights To MediaCorp. - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 28 Mar 2006 02:05 PM PST

MLBAM has licensed exclusive internet and wireless rights for the Korean market to MediaCorp, Inc. through 2008 in a “multi-million dollar” deal. MediaCorp’s rights include: -- an MLB Korean-language site…

Korean Entertainment Firm Bought In Part By Softbank; Gets $13 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 22 Feb 2006 01:03 PM PST

Masayoshi Son has done crazier investments: Softbank has bought a stake in a Korean Wave company (Korean Wave refers to the country’s pop culture becoming popular in rest of Asia,…

OhMyNews Gets $11 Million From Softbank - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 22 Feb 2006 10:03 AM PST

In what has to be the most money plonked down in a citizen journalism venture, Softbank is investing $11 million in the Korean cit-journalism site OhMyNews. Softbank will directly invest…

Our Coverage From TV Korea Showcase - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 08 Feb 2006 06:03 PM PST

We told you...we’re omnipresent...Our sister site ContentSutra has some coverage from the TV Korea Showcase conference held in Mumbai yesterday. And when they talk about TV in Korea, they mean…

Korea Orders Microsoft To Unbundle Windows; Add Rival IM, Media Player - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 06 Dec 2005 09:14 PM PST

Microsoft was ordered to unbundle its messaging service from its Windows software and allow other software makers to embed rival products by South Korea’s antitrust watchdog...the watchdog also fined MSFT…

Microsoft Settles With S Korea’s Daum For $30 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 10 Nov 2005 08:12 PM PST

Daum, one of the biggest portals in Korea (and the owner of Lycos USA, after it bought out the company last year), has settled with Microsoft, marking an end to…

Korean Online Music Stores To Merge - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 10 Nov 2005 01:13 PM PST

Reigncom, the company behind iRiver music players, and SM Entertainment, one of South Korea’s largest music labels, plan to merge their respective online content stores. Reigncom’s Yurion unit operates the…

Yahoo to Buy Back Stakes in Foreign Portals, For $500 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 07 Nov 2005 08:13 AM PST

Yahoo will buy the shares of its local portals in three European countries and South Korea that it doesn’t already own for about $500 million, taking complete ownership of these…

Korean Mobile Carriers Asked to Share Internet Platform - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 24 Oct 2005 12:11 PM PST

[by James Pearce] Hope this happens in U.S. too: The Korean government is pushing the mobile telcos in the country to open their networks with the intention of creating a…

Buena Vista Launches Mobile Video Channel in Korea - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 20 Oct 2005 11:11 AM PST

Buena Vista Entertainment, part of the Disney Group, is set to become the first US studio to launch mobile video content in Korea, after t did a deal covering live-action…

Webcasting and Mobile “Enhancing” TV in Korea - 0 Comments
Posted By Jamie Poitra - Tue 18 Oct 2005 05:12 AM PST

[by Mike Butcher @ MIPCOM] Speaking at MIPCOM Yun-Joo Jung, CEO of Korean national broadcaster KBS, said that originally they thought webcasting over broadband would take away viewers from TV…

Korea.com Portal For Sale - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 03 Oct 2005 10:12 AM PST

South Korea’s struggling portal Korea.com is for sale, after being in bankruptcy protection since 2003...the portal was once a unit of the nation’s third-largest broadband Internet operator Thrunet, which itself…

S. Korea’s OhMyNews Projects $10 Million Revenue In 2005 - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 19 Sep 2005 09:11 AM PST

One OhMyNews columnist took in nearly $30,00 (30 million won) in a week as readers paid $10 or less apiece to show approval of a critical article. But that’s the…

Korea Telecom Buys Majority Stake in Country’s Biggest Movie Studio; Talks With Disney - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 07 Sep 2005 06:10 PM PST

A harbinger of things to come in rest of the world: KT Corp., Korea’s largest fixed-line telephone and high-speed Internet operator, announced yesterday that it has acquired 51 percent of…

Lycos On The Rebound? - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 16 Jul 2005 01:08 PM PST

Oh really? Well, Lycos is celebrating its 10th anniversary, and thinks it is on the rebound. Maybe I’ll just ignore everything else I hear in the market, like how the…

KTF To Buy Korean Portal Daum? - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 28 Jun 2005 12:07 PM PST

Some history first: Korean portal company Daum is one of the biggest in the country, and last year, bought out Lycos US (which own Wired News, among other properties here).…

SKT VS KT: The Content Wars in Korea - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 13 Jun 2005 03:07 AM PST

The tense rivalry between South Korea’s two iconic telecom carriers--KT and SK Telecom--revolves around who will gain the right to produce content for mobile phones and broadcasting. And the two…

MLB Games Live On Korean Cellphones - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 02 Jun 2005 12:07 PM PST

A deal like this makes a lot of sense in a market like Korea: Major League Baseball has tied up with Korean mobile TV provider TU Media (which launched its…

SK Telecom To Launch Media Fund In Korea - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 04 May 2005 09:06 AM PST

In Korea, the dominant telco SK Telecom is planning to start a fund with local investment companies to expand its business to media and entertainment. The size of the fund…

Korea Opens Probe Against MSFT on Media Player - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 07 Nov 2004 02:12 PM PST

South Korea’s antitrust watchdog has expanded an investigation into Microsoft, after RealNetworks and others accused the company of using its dominant position to unfairly shut out rivals. RNWK has filed…