Cheon-rian capture,
, ‘In late October, ‘Cheon-rian,’ the successor to PC communication in the 1980s, will disappear into history.’,
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, ‘According to the industry on the 9th, Cheon-rian’s operator, MediaLog, announced in a recent notice that it will end the Cheon-rian service on October 31.’,
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, ‘MediaLog explained, “Even in a market situation where portals that had been together are closing one or two, we have made the difficult decision to terminate the service due to the difficult task of maintaining quality email services in the changing business environment.”‘,
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, ‘Cheon-rian will open a mail/address book backup function on the 11th and will support users’ data storage and email transfers through requests for automatic email forwarding/mail address change guidance.’,
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, ‘Subsequently, on the 1st of next month, Cheon-rian’s basic fee will be converted to free, and on September 1st, additional services such as SMS, news (videos), personalities/horoscopes, etc., will be discontinued. By October 1st, Cheon-rian will cease mail sending/receiving, leading to the complete closure of the service on October 31.’,
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, ‘With this, Cheon-rian, which started its service as a PC communication in 1985, will disappear into memories 39 years later.’,
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, ‘Ha-iTel and Nanuri have already discontinued their services in 2007 and 2012, respectively. Once Cheon-rian’s service ends at the end of October, all three major PC communications will come to an end.’,
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, ‘PC communication first introduced the “cyber world” in Korea with the birth of Cheon-rian and Ketel (KETEL, the predecessor of Ha-iTel) in the 1980s, but in the 2000s, with the activation of the internet, the number of users sharply decreased. Some users shifted to portal services, but PC communication could not regain its former glory.’,
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