Word: freechal
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...from less than 8% in 1997. For a quick tour of the new economic landscape, log on to the Internet and check out www.freechal.com. One of the Web portal's hottest products are avatars, digital cartoon characters that stand in for real people in Internet chat rooms. Freechal started charging for avatars last June. Already the company has captured some 110,000 Korean customers who spend an average of about $2.30 a month each on outfits and accessories for their virtual paper dolls. Doesn't sound like much, but it adds up to a $2.4 million boost to the local...
...never see mannequins strutting her stuff down a runway. Ryou is head of marketing for popular Korean Internet portal www.freechal.com, and one of her jobs is to dream up virtual fashions and accessories for avatars, cartoon characters that stand in for a user online. When you use Freechal, you can outfit your avatar in a range of styles: punk rocker, gangster, curvy superhero. To do so, though, you have to pay real-world cash. Says Ryou: "Romantic is going to be big this spring...
...Korea boasts a bevy of start-ups like Freechal that turn a profit by selling digital content on the Internet and mobile data networks. The nascent sector is one of the reasons Korea's economy is becoming more diverse and self-sufficient. Top-notch infrastructure is underpinning job growth: high-tech start-ups have generated more than 100,000 jobs in the past few years...
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