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Nate
is a
South Korean
web portal
. It was created by
SK communications
. It joined with
NETSGO
and then with
Lycos Korea
in 2002. In 2003, Nate took over the
online community
service
Cyworld
. In 2009, Nate combined with
Empas
and became one of the most famous Korean web portals.
By 2006 users Nate had 19 million users. This dropped to 18 million by 2008. In 2009, it had 7 million users from
China
and 450,000 from
Vietnam
.
NateOn
is a
quick messenger
provided by Nate. It topped
MSN Messenger
in 2005.
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source?
]
NateOn is South Korean’ most used messenger. It is most popular for its direct connection with Cyworld and simple to use free
text service
. It provides versions for
Windows
as well as
beta versions
for
Mac OS 10
and
Linux
.
NateOn has 22 million users.
NateOn also allows users to talk to each other using NateOn Phone.