Map-based UGC community made by Yahoo Korea goes into China.

Yahoo Korea announced on Tuesday that it introduced 'Yahoo Lifemap' (http://lifemap.yahoo.co.kr), a map-based UGC community served in Yahoo Gugi, to China.

'Yahoo Lifemap', developed by Yahoo Korea itself, is a new concept of regional service by which users save their own stories and pictures on the map and share them with other users. Since May, Yahoo Korea had actively supported technologies, designs, and know-how to open China Lifemap service and finally introduced it to Chinese users on September 12.

In particular, Yahoo China arranges the Lifemap service in the main screen of Life Service (http://life.cn.yahoo.com) that provides overall regional information. It also provides regional services to search the information of region, tour, and map, in close contact with other regional services.

Yahoo China plans to develop differentiated Life services, which are designed to provide abundant regional information, by building a mega-regional community based on vast regions and users. Yahoo Korea added that it considers a future cooperation for contents through China Lifemap.

The 'Gugi' regional search service engine, developed by Yahoo Korea in 2004, has been already applied to regional search services at Yahoo UK & Ireland and Yahoo Germany since July 2006.

According to Choi Woo-Il, the director of Yahoo local search team,"In the Yahoo global networks, the 'Gugi' regional search engine of Yahoo Korea is at the top of concern and position. We will develop Yahoo Korea to be the hub of Yahoo global region service, based on our superior technologies and human resources."

In the meantime, Yahoo Korea has introduced Yahoo knowledge search to 21 countries and prepared a series of launch for its own mini-dictionary in Taiwan and Hong Kong.