Seokchan "Channy" Yun (; born January 19, 1973) is a South Korean technologist. He promotes

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for

Web compatibility issues in South Korea Many South Korean websites have web compatibility issues, due to the non-standard technology that they use. Often this technology works only with Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE), some smartphones ( iPhone, Android, etc.), and tablets. Follow ...

, with a particular focus on encouraging adoption of

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. He was an invited expert in

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and contributed Web standards such as

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and Web cryptography API. He also founded WebStandards Korea as a member of the International Liaison Group of

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, which is an active advocate for Web standards and best practices either in their country of origin or domicile. Yun is known as one of the powerful voices of

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, according to Chris Preimesberger of ''

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'', who described him as "one of South Korea's top tech writers". Yun is a well-known technical writer that maintains his own blog, having written over 50 columns on ''

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Korea'', and was Asian editorial adviser of Lift Conference Asia. He was one of the founders of BarCamp Seoul and WebAppsCon. He formerly held the position of CTO of , South Korea's first Korean online music & radio service, before joining

Daum Communications Kakao ( ko, 카카오) is a South Korean internet company that was established in 2010. It formed as a result of a merger between Daum Communications and the original Kakao Inc. In 2014, the company was renamed Daum Kakao. The company rebrande ...

, the operator of the Daum web portal. At Daum, he was a API evangelist, supporting third-party developers using Daum's

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and started the first Korean

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class as an adjunct professor, Dept. of

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, at

Jeju National University Jeju National University is one of ten Flagship Korean National Universities. founded in 1952 in Jeju City, the provincial capital of Jeju, South Korea. In 2008 Cheju National University and the Jeju National University of Education merged int ...

. He researched big data analysis with semantic web and

medical informatics Health informatics is the field of science and engineering that aims at developing methods and technologies for the acquisition, processing, and study of patient data, which can come from different sources and modalities, such as electronic hea ...

Seoul National University Seoul National University (SNU; ) is a national public research university located in Seoul, South Korea. Founded in 1946, Seoul National University is largely considered the most prestigious university in South Korea; it is one of the three "S ...

and focused on the

strategy of

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at Daum. He now works for

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as a

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in South Korea and is an author of the AWS News Blog, writing launch posts for new AWS services. He is also known as the first Korean

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video uploader on August 9, 2005.

References

External links

Channy's blog
official blog {{DEFAULTSORT:Yun, Channy 1973 births Living people Mozilla people Open source advocates