Kimchipot.com, the Reddit of Korean news and blogs.
If you’re into Reddit and link-sharing sites like that you might be interested in Kimchipot.com, run in part by the prolific Dave MacLeod, better known as “Mithridates” on the forums. Here’s a quick intro to the site and how it works.
It sounds like a great idea. I know that Digg and Reddit users prefer different content. I'd like to see what Kimchipot users (pot users? Sounds terrible) will vote. I'm thinking it's just going to be newsy right now, and I don't think it's going to get a lot of off-beat material. I hope I'm wrong.
Thanks for the shout-out, Brian. Love to get more people contributing interesting links/posts. S. Korea is so dead these days. Everything is N. Korean posturing. Yawn...
Quick background to the site: I've been a prolific Redditor for quite some time now and Koreansalaryman is one of my best friends here, far better at running the technical aspects of a site like this than I am. One day we met up for the first time in a while and coincidentally he had just started the site, and asked me if I knew how Reddit works. Do I ever - I spend way too much time on Reddit. So running it together was a pretty easy decision.
The good thing about a site like this is that it encourages links from users, and brings in more traffic the more interesting a submission is (IOW the more upvotes it gets), so any blogger in Korea can sign up to the site and submit a link whenever they have something they feel is worth sharing, and if the community likes it then the upvotes will let you know.
Wasn't the kimchipot formerly a message board run by the What the Book guy? I always liked the What the Book guy but I'm given to understand the kimchipot message board made Dave's look like the Paris Review.
If the kimchipot no longer exists, it might behoove the site owner to note there's no relation or continuity.
Yeah, it was a coincidence. KoreanSalaryMan has never been that prolific a poster on Dave's and doesn't keep up with other expat forums. The other forum had a the in front of it too.
How long has it been gone now, 3 years or so? I'm not sure if it's worth mentioning simply because it was around for such a short time and gone for so long now.
When I posted about this site on the Brian in Jeollanam-do Facebook page the name of the messageboard came up. I don't think it really warrants a mention on the site. Wasn't much more than a handful of disgruntled migrants from a few other boards, and that old board isn't relevant or worthy of attention today.
It's good to know the kimchipot message board is just a mental stain on the brain stems of a few old timers :) I originally wanted to call my podcast the Kimchi Potcast (har har!) but at the time the kimchi pot message board was making a name for itself. I didn't want an association. I went with the more obvious "seoul survivors" (not entirely creative but then if you were looking at a list of podcasts the title immediately gave you a good idea what the podcast is about).
Heck, maybe I'm just jealous someone has jumped on a good name that was unavailable to me at the time :)
Out of curiosity - why bother with a separate site? What's wrong with just a Kimchi/Korean subreddit on Reddit proper? Saves on a heck of a lot of administrative work.
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It sounds like a great idea. I know that Digg and Reddit users prefer different content. I'd like to see what Kimchipot users (pot users? Sounds terrible) will vote. I'm thinking it's just going to be newsy right now, and I don't think it's going to get a lot of off-beat material. I hope I'm wrong.
Clever and certainly much better than patrolling through blogs looking for some interesting links :D
Nice link ^^
This is a great idea. Nice work!
Thanks for the shout-out, Brian. Love to get more people contributing interesting links/posts. S. Korea is so dead these days. Everything is N. Korean posturing. Yawn...
Quick background to the site: I've been a prolific Redditor for quite some time now and Koreansalaryman is one of my best friends here, far better at running the technical aspects of a site like this than I am. One day we met up for the first time in a while and coincidentally he had just started the site, and asked me if I knew how Reddit works. Do I ever - I spend way too much time on Reddit. So running it together was a pretty easy decision.
The good thing about a site like this is that it encourages links from users, and brings in more traffic the more interesting a submission is (IOW the more upvotes it gets), so any blogger in Korea can sign up to the site and submit a link whenever they have something they feel is worth sharing, and if the community likes it then the upvotes will let you know.
I'm a Redditor too - we should team up somehow. In the meantime, I'll post your feed.
Wasn't the kimchipot formerly a message board run by the What the Book guy? I always liked the What the Book guy but I'm given to understand the kimchipot message board made Dave's look like the Paris Review.
If the kimchipot no longer exists, it might behoove the site owner to note there's no relation or continuity.
Yeah, it was a coincidence. KoreanSalaryMan has never been that prolific a poster on Dave's and doesn't keep up with other expat forums. The other forum had a the in front of it too.
How long has it been gone now, 3 years or so? I'm not sure if it's worth mentioning simply because it was around for such a short time and gone for so long now.
When I posted about this site on the Brian in Jeollanam-do Facebook page the name of the messageboard came up. I don't think it really warrants a mention on the site. Wasn't much more than a handful of disgruntled migrants from a few other boards, and that old board isn't relevant or worthy of attention today.
It's good to know the kimchipot message board is just a mental stain on the brain stems of a few old timers :) I originally wanted to call my podcast the Kimchi Potcast (har har!) but at the time the kimchi pot message board was making a name for itself. I didn't want an association. I went with the more obvious "seoul survivors" (not entirely creative but then if you were looking at a list of podcasts the title immediately gave you a good idea what the podcast is about).
Heck, maybe I'm just jealous someone has jumped on a good name that was unavailable to me at the time :)
Out of curiosity - why bother with a separate site? What's wrong with just a Kimchi/Korean subreddit on Reddit proper? Saves on a heck of a lot of administrative work.
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