Daum

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**Daum Communications Corp.**
Korean name

Type	Public (KOSDAQ: 035720)
Founded	February 12 1995
Location	Seoul, South Korea
Key people	Lee, Jae Woong, (Founder & CEO) Seok, Jong Hoon (CEO)
Industry	Internet
Products	DaumCafe, Hanmail.net, MediaDaum, DaumBlog, D&Shop,Daum Direct1
Revenue	209,997 million won (2005)
Employees	1,200 (2006)
Website	www.daum.net
Hangul	다음
Revised Romanization	da-eum

Daum.net (October 12, 2006)

Daum (Korean: 다음; KOSDAQ: 035720) is a popular web portal in South Korea, with its rival Naver. Daum offers many Internet services to web users, including a popular free web-based e-mail, messaging service, forums, shopping and news.

The popularity of Daum is a reflection of the high level of internet use in South Korea. The country has the highest level of broadband users, and one of the most widespread levels of computer and Internet access.

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, hanmail.net. After the merging, daum started the forum service DaumCafe which brought its firm status in the market. The term cafe is now used as the synonym for "Internet forum" in Korean.

On August 2, 2004 Daum announced the purchase of Lycos for $95.4 million, and closed the transaction on October 6.^[1]

Daum has about 1,200 employees as of June, 2006.^[1]