Daum (web portal)
Daum is a South Korean web portal. Daum was founded in 1995 and launched on December 20th, 1995 by the company Daum Communications. It also offers a variety of services, including cloud storage, Daum Dictionary, Daum Comics, and map service.
Daum Kakao is the company behind the Kakao messaging service and Daum is a Korean web portal with many services.
History
The former Daum Communications Corporation was founded in 1994 by Park Geon-hee and Lee Jae-woong, and the company launched the namesake portal in May 1997 making it the first South Korean web portal.Daum offers various Internet services to web users, including a popular free web-based e-mail, messaging services, shopping, news services.
In 2006, they started a blogging service Tistory a blogging platform developing company.
Daum company also develops and distributes the freeware media player PotPlayer.
In addition to its freeware media player, Daum Communications Corp. provides a variety of services such as clouding service, Daum Dictionary, Daum Comics, and map service.
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.
In 2014, Daum merged with Kakao Corp., known as the maker of KakaoTalk, to form Daum Kakao.