Daum

Daum is one of the famous comprehensive portal websites in South Korea, founded in February 1995. It was originally an email service provider in South Korea, and its core products are email and community products.

Daum provides a variety of network services, including search engines, email, entertainment news, etc. In addition to communication and content services, Daum is also involved in business and film and television industries. The websites literature classification area is considered to be the birthplace of Korean online novels.

In the field of search services in South Korea, Daum has a certain market share, but it is far lower than Naver. Daums users are mainly Koreans.

Some features and functions of Daum include:

• Provide email services;

• Have rich news, entertainment and other content;

• There are a large number of online novels in the literature classification area;

• Can provide some search services, etc.

In 2018, Daums founder Lee Jae-woong returned to the companys management after leaving the front line of business for 10 years.

In addition, in 2020, Daum temporarily closed the comment function for entertainment news to strengthen the supervision of malicious comments such as defamation and insults to others, and improve the hot word search list and search auto-complete function.