14 DAY TRIAL // The Mountain View company Google is quietly planning a new version of YouTube in a move meant to increase the company's presence in the Asian market. It seems like Google will release YouTube South Korea soon but the company's officials refused to give more details about the upcoming flavor of the online video sharing service. The announcement comes after a few days since Google rolled out several YouTube versions for multiple countries including Japan, Italy, Spain and Brazil.
According to The Age, the new YouTube version will be very similar with the other ones, offering a translated webpage in the mother language. As usual, the users will be able to upload videos and share them with the entire YouTube community from all versions of the online video sharing service.
"Google is pushing to launch YouTube here in the second half," a Google Korea spokeswoman told Yonhap news agency according to The Age. "In addition, negotiations are underway with a number of local companies to secure content for its video-sharing business."
The rumors about local versions of YouTube appeared approximately one month ago when Steve Chen, the YouTube founder, sustained that Google might release a different version of the video sharing service beside the mail US one. The statements were partially true because the Mountain View company made even more and released multiple editions of the service for several countries.
This is one of the major moments in YouTube's history although the solution was periodically updated since the Google acquisition. As you probably know, the Mountain View company bought YouTube in October 2006 for $1.65 million, one of the biggest investments ever made for an Internet company. At this time, most of the Internet users are waiting for the big anti-copyright infringement function prepared by the search giant that is meant to make YouTube more legal and closer to the owners of the uploaded videos.