Empas

1998–2009 South Korean web portal

Empas

Type of site

| Web portal
Owner| SK Communications
Created by| Empas Corporation
URL| www.empas.com
Commercial| Yes
Registration| Optional
Launched| 1998
Current status| Sold and merged with Nate
Empas

Hangul|

엠파스

Revised Romanization| Empaseu
McCune–Reischauer| Emp'asŭ

Empas (Korean: 엠파스) was one of the popular total internet search tools and web portal sites in South Korea.[1]

## Name

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The service was launched in 1998 by Knowledge Plant Corporation (지식발전소), which changed its name to Empas Corporation in 2004. The name Empas is a combination of e-media and compass.[2] It merged with Nate in 2009.

## History

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Empas was one of South Korea's most popular web search engines, and competed with Daum, Nate, and Naver. Empas was the second most popular web portal in the country from 2000 to 2001, by unique page view. Since the dominance of Naver started in 2003, however, the market share of Empas declined, and by late 2005, it had fallen into the fifth place amongst the South Korean web portals. In 2006, aiming to check its main competition Naver's rapid expansion, SK Communications (which owned South Korea's popular social networking website Cyworld) acquired Empas on 19 October 2006.

With the reorganisation of SK Communications's business fields, Empas was merged with Nate.com, which was the original web portal of SK Communications, and became Nate on 1 March 2009.[1]

## See also

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* Internet portal

* Search engine
* Timeline of web search engines
* Naver
* Kakao
* Nate

## Notes

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## References

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1. ^ a b Kim Tong-hyung (2008-12-10). "Empas Sent to Portals' Graveyard". The Korea Times. Archived from the original on 2016-06-30.
2. ^ "[나의 창업기] '지식발전소'..사이트작명 기술 못지않게 중요".

## External links

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* Empas on 27 February 2009, days before it became the Nate website
* Nate, successor to Empas
* SK Communications, Inc.

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