10. Is there any Hangul Internet BBS?
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This article is from the Hangul & Internet in Korea FAQ, by Jungshik Shin jshin@minerva.cis.yale.edu with numerous contributions by others.
10. Is there any Hangul Internet BBS?
Yes, there are three of them widely known and two more mainly used within
KAIST but also open to everyone.
ARA(ara.kaist.ac.kr)
the oldest one, it has stopped its service for long time because of
hacker's attack and resumed it recently. Eventually, it will be replaced
by VVS(Virtual Village System) like Freenet at Case Western Reserve Univ.
according to the sysop of ARA BBS(cdpark@ara.kaist.ac.kr)
http://CBUBBS.chungbuk.ac.kr
It started as a BBS in Chong-ju for dial-up connection only. Now, it
allows Internet connection as well. It has the most recent news on Hangul
s/w for personal computers(MS-DOS and Mac).It's one of the first Internet
BBS' accessible with WWW in Korea.
KIDS.kotel.co.kr
(Login as 'kids'): Run by Korea Telecom and dial-up access is possible.
It offers various services of interest to Koreans abroad including Today
Korea board for news in Korea. One can save some money by electronically
corresponding with one's family in Seoul. Currently, it's difficult to
get a new account,but one may get a account on ARA BBS that can be
reached by 'routing' from KIDS with 'guest' account. Dial-up access in
Seoul is also possible. (526-5533(9 lines) for 9.6/14.4/28.8kbps and
526-5539 for 2.4kbps)
Under BBS (korea.slip.umd.edu
The oldest Hangul BBS in America. Originally run at Caltech, now at U. of
Maryland by Kim,Daeshik. You may meet a lot of Koreans and Korean
Americans here.
Hana BBS (www.hanabbs.com)
Run at the same host as HanaBBS archive. Meeting place for a lot of
Koreans abroad and in Korea. Among its distinct features are Hangul
Romanization when accessed via telnet and gif-mapped rendering of Hangul
when viewed via WWW for those without Hangul facility.
Madang BBS
One of first Web BBS' in Korea by Kwon, Do-gyun at Dacom. It's
temporarily out of service as of Sep. 5th.
In Korea, all three of them may be reached by dial-up connection. See
Subject 24 and Subject 25 for more detail.
There are now tens of Hangul Internet BBS' in Korea. Some of them are
Uri-Maul, Hoo-nam's home, Lily.
When telneting to these BBS', 8bit clean telnet/rlogin and 8bit clean
terminal set up are to be used to enter Hangul. See Subject 16.
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