Characteristics of Korean Blogosphere over Time

As blogs become an important medium through which to communicate and exchange information on the World Wide Web, phenomena in the blogosphere are treated as important social phenomena. The advent of the blogosphere may provide opportunities for establishing new business models targeting online world. The blogosphere changes over time. To establish successful business policies in the blogosphere, the changes in the characteristics of the blogosphere should be understood. In this paper, focusing on the influence of convenient features of the Korean blogosphere, we analyze the changes of the characteristics of the Korean blogosphere over time. We expect that the results of these analyses would be helpful in developing effective algorithms and in establishing new business models.