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(4 ) | ip = | current_status = Online | footnotes = }} Daum ((朝鮮語:다음)) is a web portal in South Korea, like Naver and Nate. Daum offers many Internet services to web users, including a popular free web-based e-mail, messaging service, forums, shopping and news. The word "daum" means "next", but it can also be interpreted as Hanja "多音", meaning "many sounds".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Daum Corporate Identity info page )〕 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 its firm status in the market. The term ''cafe'' and even ''internet cafe'' (Different from what is supposed to refer to in Western usage) is now used as the synonym for "Internet forum" in Korean. From 2003, Daum started on-line direct automobile insurance by launching the subsidiary 'Daum Direct Auto Insurance' and from 2008, it became a partnership company with ERGO Insurance Group. On August 2, 2004 Daum announced the purchase of Lycos for $95.4 million, and closed the transaction on October 6. As part of a corporate restructuring to focus on mobile, social networks and location-based services, Daum sold Lycos for $36 million in August 2010 to Ybrant Digital, an internet marketing company based in Hyderabad, India.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ybrant Digital Buys Lycos for $36 Million )〕 In 2006, they started a blogging service Tistory with 'Tatter and Company',〔In 2008, Google Korea acquired 'Tatter and Company':〕 a blogging platform developing company and in July 2007, Daum took over all rights to manage the services. The company also develops and distributes the freeware media player PotPlayer. In addition to its freeware media player(Daum tvPot), Daum Communications Corp. provides variety of services such as clouding service (Daum Cloud), Daum Dictionary (applicable on mobile devices), Daum Comics, and map service (Daum Maps). Daum has about 874 employees as of March, 2009 and is the 2nd largest web portal service provider in South Korea in terms of daily visit. In 2014, Daum merged with Kakao to form Daum Kakao. 〔(Kakao And Daum To Merge, Creating One Of South Korea’s Largest Internet Companies )〕 ==See also== * Contemporary culture of South Korea * Global World Encyclopedia * Tistory * PotPlayer 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Daum (web portal)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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