(Last update on November 2007) Hi, my name is Chang. (Just for the record, my full name in Korean is Chang-Won Kim.) I've been writing this blog since early 2006, mostly as a personal project. The primary goal of this blog is to let people outside of Korea know what's happening around the Korean IT/web industry, and other interesting web-related things happening in Korea. I was also in Japan for quite a while, on a long onsite project (hence the name of this blog, Web 2.0 Asia, instead of Web 2.0 Korea), but honestly I'm mostly based in Korea for now and therefore most of my stories pertain to the Korean market. As a full time startup executive, I'm usually pretty busy - so when I blog, I usually just quickly "write away" and don't look back, so my blogs might contain some typos or grammatical errors or some unclear things (English is not my first language anyway). But I'll try my best though - just don't expect this blog to be perfect ;)
My full-time job is to run Korea's leading blog software company, TNC (Sorry the link is in Korean), sharing the CEO post with the original founder and my partner/pal Chester Roh. TNC provides professional blogging software and services to 400K+ users, including 65 of Korea's top 100 bloggers (as of 1H 2007). TNC is the first company to have received funding from Softbank Ventures' Ranger Fund, a venture fund dedicated for Asia's most innovative web startups. TNC is also a 2007 Red Herring 100 Asian Company. My primary role as the co-CEO is to take the company to the global market and to develop new services. During the day, I'm busy working on either the next version of blogging service, or a pretty wacky new business idea. For more information including my more resume-ish profile, check out my first post below. If you'd like to contact me in person, please send an email at chang1.kim at gmail dot com.
