Korea, A Nation of Bloggers?
According to this Blogcount article Korea is a nation of bloggers:
“It is asserted that there are 11.9 million bloggers in South Korea, a country with a population of around 50 million people. This means that over 20 percent of the people in the country, including old ladies and babies, are bloggers. This is a laughable and needy assertion. IBM cannot even muster 0.1 percent of its employee base, and Korea manages over 20 percent of its entire population? This is how delusional the blogging-crowd members have become about their hobby. And, frankly, I don’t get it. Everyone has to conform. It’s the ‘everyone must become a blogger because I am one’ mentality.”
Does 20% of the population in Korea really blog? I don’t buy it. That is an extremely high percentage when you think about it. However, I can agree with the group think mentality in Korea that may lead to Korea having a larger than normal blogging population, but 20% seems really high.
As a fellow K-blogger I can definitely say that this place never runs out of things to blog about. Between the violent protesters, the bias media, wacky politicians, the Dear Leader, one word: Dokto, and not to mention the threat of nuclear annihilation there is always something to blog about here.
Hat tip to the Asiapundit for the link.
I'm sure they include Cyworld 'mini-home Ps' in their definitions of blogs. It seems to me the majority of young people have one.
I agree with Scott, they must be including Cyworld. In fact, that's probably the bulk of their 'blogs.' Even my nieces, 10 and 7 years old, have Cyworld accounts.