Naver launches 'Naver Academic' where thesis and academic writing are databased. Naver's N Drive teams up with Snaps, Smilecat, Photomon to develop photographic prints and products. Naver also introduces Page Profit Share. Cultural contents can be sold and will be applied to 'Naver Webtoons' first. This will be interesting to see how it turns on Kakao's 'Kakao Page'. We wrote about it here.

Korean company, Cubrid is invited to 'The Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo' where they will give a talk about distributed processing technology, California.

Daum launches real estate search services. The search results will be tailored to the user's needs and will have an optimal map distribution. Daum will also be participating in Evernote Hackathon! Read more about it here.

Cyworld (Korea's equivalent of Facebook) and Nate goes over major reorganization. Responsive UI applied and Cyworld goes over a front page makeover.

ESTsoft launches and distributes Alyac vaccine related to MBR codes.

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