Chris DeWolfe of MySpace was just in Korea (Yonsei U.) to announce the Korean version of MySpace.com and it is already looking better than Cyworld since U.S. Cyworld users can not send messages to Cyworld users in Korea or access their account through the Korean portal (infranet!?).
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Another example on how the US is behind Asia, the Cyworld fad started going out of style 5 years ago, only for the US to pic up on myspace/facebook two or three years afterwards. Now there is just a bunch of disinterested netizens, they will have to wait another four year s or so for the next generation to grow up and find this stuff novel again.
I went to the MySpace Korea party in Hongdae on Wednesday night. Rather disappointing, really. MySpace Japan had an acoustic Oasis concert, MySpace Spain had Smashing Pumpkins. MySpace Korea had Clazziquai and Crying Nut (and both played for less then 10 minutes). The event was so lame that Chris and the MySpace crew ditched their own party, went somewhere else.
How long will this last, I mean how long will the Korean authorities allow a Korean-based chat to admit people (young, hookup-seeking people at that) who lack registration numbers? Or is based in the US?
That was a part of my curiosity “Alejandro” because of the neutering of Cyworld (Korea-only version) and how Flickr censors its content only in Hong Kong and Korea. The fact I can actually start a Korean MySpace account, without registration numbers, is pretty decent change from the ouri-infranet approach.
I’m not sure what happened with the PR event. It seems that anytime an American pop music act is contracted for Asia, it all goes through this one agent who does his best to push the price up to the sky, thus they may have run out of money for the PR event.