Hi Ethan, Han-Woo Park has done a lot of research into blogs in Korea - he has details on his site: http://www.hanpark.net/ You could also look at: Su, Norman Makoto, et al. "A Bosom Buddy Afar Brings a Distant Land Near: Are Bloggers a Global Community?" Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Communities and Technologies (C&T 2005), 2005. 21 Nov. 2006 <http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sci/sirc/workingpapers/Blog%20Ethics.pdf>. I am doing research into the Malaysian blogosphere, and we could discuss more off-list if you like :) Cheers, Julian ++++++++++ Blog: www.julianhopkins.net Skype: julhop IM: jfprhopkins@hotmail.com ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:11:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Ethan Mayers <ethanmayers@yahoo.com> Subject: [Air-L] Asian Blogosphere Research To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Message-ID: <545966.4572.qm@web50810.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I am new to this list and my professor (Ben Bates, University of Tennessee) told me about this group.  am currently involved in a research project analyzing the Asian blog Market. We are specifically looking at Taiwan, Singapore, Japan and Korea and identifying top tech, video game and lifestyles blogs. If anyone can give me leads on blogs, or a deeper understanding of those markets, I would be most appreciateve.   Ethan Mayers Researcher, New York   ------------------------------