Egloos
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Egloos (Korean: 이글루스) was a South Korean blog host, established in 2003. Its owner, SK Communications, claimed it to be a professional publishing system. The ISP acquired the service in 2006.
The name "Egloo" is derived from the word "igloo" and represented a personal online home for its users' lives.
Egloos's service ended on 16 June 2023 (2023-06-16), causing the website to dissolve. Following Egloos's dissolution, the website created a backup period for its users. This allowed them to download their posts, attached images, and files from the website before they were permanently deleted from Egloos's servers. The backup period lasted from 16 June 2023 (2023-06-16) to 18 December 2023 (2023-12-18).
Users
The site was reported to have around 1 million users, but lost users to foreign blogging sites in 2009 due to concerns regarding the South Korean government's monitoring of its citizens' web-browsing behavior.
The Korea Times also stated this in their news article:
"Since April 1 (2009), the government mandated Internet users to make verifiable real-name registrations on all Web sites with more than 100,000 daily visitors, which means they have to submit their resident registration codes, the Korean equivalent of social security numbers."
Egloos' users were often Koreans with intensive IT-related interests.
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