"Nice to Meet Again" Cyworld Resumes Service After Two and a Half Years

[Asia Economy Reporter Kang Nahum] Cyworld has resumed its service after two and a half years.

According to Cyworld Jet, the operator of Cyworld, the app was simultaneously launched around noon on the 2nd on domestic and international app markets such as Google Play, Apple App Store, and One Store.

Son Seongmin, co-CEO of Cyworld Jet, explained, "To provide a stable service, we released the app earlier than the originally announced time of 4:42 PM, at 12:30 PM."

This marks the resumption of Cyworld's service after 2 years and 6 months since it stopped its web service in October 2019. Previously, Cyworld Jet announced that they restored 17 billion Cyworld photos, 150 million videos, 1.1 billion diaries, and 6.8 billion postings.

Currently, login and password changes are functioning normally. However, the photo album is unavailable with a notification message stating "Photo album restoration in progress."

Members who joined after January 1, 2015, totaling 18 million, can use the photo album normally, but the database (DB), photos, and videos of members who joined before that are currently being restored and transferred, so it may take some time to normalize. Cyworld Jet explained, "All photo albums have been fully restored, but it takes time for them to be uploaded within the service."

Meanwhile, Cyworld announced the issuance of its official virtual currency, Dotori (DTR), and previewed "Money-making Cyworld" (C2E·Cyworld to Earn). They will also introduce "Cycon" as a family coin in collaboration with blockchain developer Konan Korea. To this end, they plan to rebrand the existing Konan Coin. They also plan to build a decentralized storage system called "Konan Drive" to reward users who provide PC and mobile storage capacity with Cycon.

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