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Korean Korean may refer to: People and culture * Koreans, ethnic group originating in the Korean Peninsula * Korean cuisine * Korean culture * Korean language **Korean alphabet, known as Hangul or Chosŏn'gŭl **Korean dialects and the Jeju language ** ...

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Korean language Korean ( South Korean: , ''hangugeo''; North Korean: , ''chosŏnmal'') is the native language for about 80 million people, mostly of Korean descent. It is the official and national language of both North Korea and South Korea (geographic ...

encyclopedia which was published by Beomhan (범한, Publishing Company) in 2004. Nearly 1500 experts wrote around 138,000 articles about literature, history, science, culture, law, philosophy, thought, technology and so on. On November 4, 2008,

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 ...

acquired its license and donated it to

Wikipedia Wikipedia is a multilingual free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and using a wiki-based editing system. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read refer ...

."Donation of knowledge contents increases in internet"
HanKyoreh, November 4th, 2008 Some

netizens The term netizen is a portmanteau of the English words ''internet'' and ''citizen'', as in a "citizen of the net" or "net citizen". It describes a person actively involved in online communities or the Internet in general.

and Daum have been proceeding with Knowledge Sharing Project since then.

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Daum Knowledge Sharing Project
2004 books South Korean online encyclopedias 2004 establishments in South Korea Kakao 21st-century encyclopedias {{Korea-stub