As of today Twitter users in North and South Korea can view Twitter.com, the mobile site and the iPhone and Android apps in Korean characters. Twitter has partnered with Korean web portal Daum to display Korean tweets on its homepage and Korean telcom service LG+ to make Twitter available on SMS.
Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, who is apparently in South Korean capital Seoul at the moment, celebrated the milestone with the above tweet, which translated means “Twitter is a real-time global information network.”
Twitter’s announcement post also suggests Korean users to follow, in Korean.
Korean is the seventh international language Twitter now supports, joining English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish. Twitter plans on adding more languages by the end of the year, which makes sense as 70% of its user base is international.
You can change your language to Korean by going to “Settings > Language > Korean.”
See: TechCrunch
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