Melon is a South Korean online music store and music streaming service introduced in November 2004, and developed by SK Telecom. LOEN Entertainment (became Kakao M and then Kakao Entertainment) became the company-in-charge of the service in 2009. In 2017, Kakao merged Kakao Music into Melon to have one, unified music streaming service. Melon is South Korea's largest music subscription service, with over 28 million users. Melon is the most popular music streaming service in South Korea. In fact, a survey of users of smartphones found that they were the most used applications by Koreans. Melon is currently available on iOS and Android. The name Melon is an acronym of the phrase melody on.
Soompi.com is a community fan site focused on Korean and Asian pop entertainment, dramas, music, celebrities and movies. We are the longest running site dedicated to bringing you the best in Korean music & entertainment, since March 27, 1998. Our members span the world, but since we are an English language site, many members are primarily concentrated in the United States, Canada, Australia, Singapore, the Philippines and Malaysia.
Koreaboo enables a global audience to discover viral Korean pop culture content, in English, across the social web. Koreaboo is the driving force behind the global phenomenon of K-Pop, with its content being seen by 40M users across 100 different countries.
Koreaboo is also the co-founder and creator of KCON, a Korean pop culture convention and music festival held annually in more than 7 different countries with 200,000+ attendees in 2017.
Koreaboo Inc. was founded in the U.S. and operates internationally in Seoul and Los Angeles.