empas
{{Short description|1998–2009 South Korean web portal}}
{{Infobox website
| name = Empas
| logo = Empas logo.png
| screenshot =
| caption = Empas logo
| url = {{URL|www.empas.com}}
| commercial = Yes
| type = Web portal
| registration = Optional
| launch_date = 1998
| current_status = Sold and merged with Nate
| owner = SK Communications
| author = Empas Corporation
}}
{{Infobox Korean name
|hangul=엠파스
|hanja=
|rr=Empaseu
|mr=Emp'asŭ
}}
Empas ({{Korean|hangul=엠파스}}) was a South Korean internet search engine and web portal.{{cite web|work=The Korea Times |author=Kim Tong-hyung |title=Empas Sent to Portals' Graveyard |url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2015/05/129_35885.html |date=2008-12-10 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160630150409/http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2015/05/129_35885.html |archive-date=2016-06-30 }}
Name
The service was launched in 1998 by Knowledge Plant Corporation ({{lang|ko|지식발전소}}), which changed its name to Empas Corporation in 2004. The name Empas is a combination of e-media and compass.{{Cite web|url=https://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=101&oid=015&aid=0000203744|title = [나의 창업기] '지식발전소'..사이트작명 기술 못지않게 중요}} It merged with Nate in 2009.
History
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.
See also
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090227015643/http://www.empas.com/ Empas on 27 February 2009, days before it became the Nate website]
- [http://www.nate.com Nate, successor to Empas]
- [http://www.skcomms.co.kr/ SK Communications, Inc.]
{{Web search engines}}
Category:Blog hosting services
Category:Online companies of South Korea
Category:Defunct internet search engines
Category:1998 establishments in South Korea