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A survey was done from 19th till 26th July on CyWorld visitors on artist’s minihompy visitor hits ranking and 2NE1 members Sandara Park, Park Bom and Gong MinJi was in the top 10 chart, all 3 of them have gathered over 500,000 visits to their minihompy on Cyworld over the last short while.

Cyworld is a social networking website launched on Sep 1, 1999. Cyworld is a South Korean web community site operated by SK Communications, a subsidiary of SK Telecom. Literally translated, “Cy” could mean “cyber”, but is also a play on the Korean word for relationship, so it could also mean “relationship.” Cyworld, much like a virtual space in the internet, which users can decorate their “home” and invite friends.

Members cultivate on- and off-line relationships by forming Ilchon buddy relationships with each other through a service called “minihompy” (mini-homepage), which encompasses a photo gallery, video, message board, guestbook, friend list, and personal bulletin board. A user can link his/her minihompy to another user’s minihompy to form a buddy relationship. It is similar to U.S. based Facebook and MySpace websites. Reports show that as much as 90 percent of South Koreans in their 20s and 25 percent of the total population of South Korea are registered users of Cyworld , and as of September 2005, monthly unique visitors are about 20 million.