Korean Weblogs and Community: Preliminary Thoughts

Min-ah has an interesting post in which she discusses weblogs and community in Korea. We read about OhMyNews!, a citizen journalism site, in Amateur Hour, one of our course readings. But I don't recall hearing about Cyworld before seeing Min-ah's discussion of it. I'm curious whether experimental community sites like these have more appeal in Korea than they do in other places? Perhaps the report We Media: How Audiences are Shaping the Future of News and Information (and which Aizhan linked to--thanks Aizhan) would have some insights...