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Daum (web portal)

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Daum
Type of site
Web portal
Available inKorean
OwnerKakao Corp.
URLdaum.net
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional
Users6.9 million (Mobile MAU)
LaunchedMay 1997; 27 years ago (1997-05)
Current statusOnline
Daum
Hangul
다음
Revised RomanizationDaeum
McCune–ReischauerTaŭm

Daum (Korean: 다음) is a South Korean web portal. It offers various Internet services to web users, including a popular free web-based e-mail, messaging services, shopping, news services. The word "Daum" means "next" and also "diverse voices" in Korean.[1]

After competing with Naver in the 2000s and 2010s, it has undergone a extended period of decline after its merger with Kakao in 2014, leading to the slow phasing-out of the Daum name in various services, including changing its name from Daum Kakao to Kakao, the migration of its accounts to Kakao accounts, and the closure or renaming into Kakao-branded services of various services, such as Kakao Webtoon (formerly Daum Webtoon) and KakaoTV (formerly Daum PotPlayer).

History

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The former Daum Communications Corporation (Korean: ㈜다음커뮤니케이션) was founded in 1994 by Park Geon-hee [ko] and Lee Jae-woong [ko], and the company launched the namesake portal in May 1997 making it the first South Korean web portal. It offers various Internet services to web users, including a popular free web-based e-mail, messaging services, shopping, news services. The word "Daum" means "next" and also "diverse voices" in Korean.[2]

In 2006, they started a blogging service Tistory a blogging platform developing company and in July 2007 Daum took over all rights to manage the services.[3]

The company also develops and distributes the freeware media player PotPlayer. In addition to its freeware media player (Daum tvPot), Daum Communications Corp. provides a variety of services such as clouding service (Daum Cloud), Daum Dictionary (applicable on mobile devices), Daum Comics, and map service (Daum Maps).[4]

Daum has about 874 employees as of March 2009, and was the 2nd largest web portal service provider in South Korea in terms of daily visits.[5]

In 2014, Daum merged with Kakao Corp. (at that time known as Kakao Inc.), known as the maker of KakaoTalk, to form Daum Kakao.[6]

Service

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The popularity of Daum stems from the range of services it offers, but also from the fact that it was the first Korean web portal of significant size. Its popularity started when it merged with the then most popular e-mail service, daum.net or hanmail.net. After the merging, Daum started the forum service Daum Cafe which brought it firm status in the market. Daum received the eighth-highest trust rating in a 2020 Reuters Institute survey of selected South Korean media outlets.[7][8]

See also

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Notes

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References

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  1. ^ "Daum Corporate Identity info page". Archived from the original on 2014-03-28. Retrieved 2014-05-07.
  2. ^ "Daum Corporate Identity info page". Archived from the original on 2014-03-28. Retrieved 2014-05-07.
  3. ^ "카카오 티스토리 블로그에 '후원' 모델 도입". 다음 - 미디어오늘. Retrieved 2024-11-10.
  4. ^ "카카오맵". 카카오맵 (in Korean). Retrieved 2024-11-10.
  5. ^ "NHN, 포털 1위 쉽게 내주지 않을 것-교보". Edaily [ko] (in Korean). 2009-06-03. Archived from the original on 2020-07-29. Retrieved 2020-04-03.
  6. ^ Shu, Catherine (26 May 2014). "Kakao And Daum To Merge, Creating One Of South Korea's Largest Internet Companies". Archived from the original on 26 May 2014. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  7. ^ Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2020 (PDF). University of Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. p. 102. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-05-31. Retrieved 2021-05-23.
  8. ^ ""1년 새 120만명 빠졌다"…잘 나가던 '국민 포털'의 추락". Naver News (in Korean). Retrieved 2024-06-25.
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