Cyworld USA is up and running

by Robert Koehler on July 28, 2006

The beta version of SK Communication’s Cyworld USA is open for business, so don’t just read about it—run on over now and get your minihompi.

(HT to Younghusband)

Tagged as: The Netizens

{ 18 comments… read them below or add one }

1 shakuhachi July 28, 2006 at 3:12 pm: Will the US cyworld allow you to connect with the Korean cyworlders, or will it segregate them?
2 dogbertt July 28, 2006 at 3:21 pm: And you can register easily, without so much as putting in a government-issued ID number.

Don’t that just beat all!
3 iheartblueballs July 28, 2006 at 3:28 pm: Unless Cyworld USA is offering studded dildos, whip-cream cans to huff, and bricks of weed to decorate their minihompies, this is going to be a first-rate disaster. While Korean teens (and 20-somethings, and 30-somethings, and everyone else in Korea) may enjoy the Hello Kitty cute overkill, and think it fun to spend actual cash on cartoon couches for their minihompies…Cyworld execs are out to fucking lunch if they think American teens will follow suit.

Cyworld will fail, and fail badly. Any American teenager that sets up a dumbass minihompie, decks it out with pink sofas and other ridiculous Cycrap, and then sends a link to their friends…will be ostracized as being gayer than a bag of dicks. Cute isn’t cool for American teens. It’s the object of scorn and ridicule. You can’t be simultaneously into Trent Reznor and minihompies, it’s impossible.

Cyworld is absolutely perfect for the target audience of Korean nutizens who regard immaturity, childishness, and acting a decade below your age as a badge of honor…but if Cyworld takes the American internet — populated largely with grungely depressed teens and Nirvana-raised 20’s and 30’s averse to cute — by storm, I pledge to chop off my own blueballs and take pictures of myself eating them.
4 The Goat July 28, 2006 at 4:27 pm: So what you are saying is….homepi don’t play dat?
5 Randomperson July 28, 2006 at 4:30 pm: Iheartblueballs, that may be true for the teenage boys (excluding those who may be effete or whatnot) but what about the teenage girls?

Personally, I think Cyworld could manage to get a decent following in the US, although it would probably boom and bust as a fad often does.
6 Ray July 28, 2006 at 4:33 pm: Myspace has got this thing in check, no? No way Cyworld will penetrate deep at all.
7 Randomperson July 28, 2006 at 4:43 pm: It’s not as if these sites are pay-per-use or something; there is nothing to stop “internet enthousiasts” from having both a myspace page and a minihompi.
8 MarshallKirkpatrick July 28, 2006 at 4:48 pm: Whatcha goin’a do with all that minihompi, all that minihompi, all that minihompi up in yo…
9 Origami July 28, 2006 at 7:21 pm: What the hell are they going to do about pedophiles?
10 조엘 July 29, 2006 at 3:16 am: Speaking of cyworld go check out this:

http://www.cyworld.com/michaelarnold

Don’t forget to watch the videos, most especially “Sweet Spy 달콤한 스파이.” Never a shortage of Canadians to act in overblown bad American roles it would seem. And I use act in the very loosest sense of the word. Proof that language sometimes prevents people from knowing whether or not you’re a tool.
11 bulgasari July 29, 2006 at 6:35 am: Will the US cyworld allow you to connect with the Korean cyworlders, or will it segregate them?

I guess the frontpage of the US site answers shakuhachi’s question:

Note: Currently, Cyworld operates sites in Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan and the United States (with more to come!) Please note however, members of one country site are NOT able to clip posts or become neighbors with members of another country site.

Positively shocking.
12 dda July 29, 2006 at 6:44 am: You can’t shop at amazon.co.jp with an amazon.com account either… Doesn’t surprise me much.
13 조엘 July 29, 2006 at 8:51 am: Marmot please delete my comment. I need to stop posting when I’m comments when I’m half-asleep.
14 kushibo July 29, 2006 at 12:22 pm: I pledge to chop off my own blueballs and take pictures of myself eating them.

How about just taking down your avatar so I can start reading The Marmot’s Hole in places where people might see my monitor?
15 shakuhachi July 29, 2006 at 1:15 pm: Marmot please delete my comment. I need to stop posting when I’m comments when I’m half-asleep.

Joel, are you talking about this comment?

Speaking of cyworld go check out this:

http://www.cyworld.com/michaelarnold

Don’t forget to watch the videos, most especially “Sweet Spy 달콤한 스파이.” Never a shortage of Canadians to act in overblown bad American roles it would seem. And I use act in the very loosest sense of the word. Proof that language sometimes prevents people from knowing whether or not you’re a tool.

Dude, that was pure gold~!
16 iheartblueballs July 29, 2006 at 3:44 pm: How about just taking down your avatar so I can start reading The Marmot’s Hole in places where people might see my monitor?

This coming from the person that subjects Marmot commenters to a hideously ugly infant capable of petrifying any who look upon it. Discolored testicles are a picnic in comparison.
17 TheBDF July 30, 2006 at 12:19 pm: Myspace has got this thing in check, no? No way Cyworld will penetrate deep at all.

I remember people saying “Friendster has got this thing in check, no? No way Myspace will penetrate deep at all.” This is especially true given that myspace pages are, by far, the ugliest thing on the internet except for Kushibo and IHeartBlueBalls avatars.
18 Ray July 30, 2006 at 8:15 pm: yeah, Myspace sucks ass… I’m still not so sure about this though, considering what Ihearblueballs already talked about.