Channy Yun Explained

Channy Yun
Birth Date:19 January 1973
Birth Place:South Korea
Known For:Cloud computing, Open-source software, HTML5, Mozilla
Employer:Amazon Web Services
Module:
Child:yes
Hangul:윤석찬
Hanja:尹錫璨
Rr:Yun Seokchan
Mr:Yun Sŏkchan

Seokchan "Channy" Yun (; born January 19, 1973) is a South Korean technologist. He promotes Web standards for Web compatibility issues in South Korea, with a particular focus on encouraging adoption of Firefox.[1] He was an invited expert in W3C and contributed Web standards such as HTML5[2] and Web cryptography API.[3] He also founded WebStandards Korea[4] as a member of the International Liaison Group of Web Standards Project, which is an active advocate for Web standards and best practices either in their country of origin or domicile.[5]

Yun is known as one of the powerful voices of open-source software on Twitter, according to Chris Preimesberger of eWeek, who described him as "one of South Korea's top tech writers".[6] Yun is a well-known technical writer that maintains his own blog, having written over 50 columns on ZDNet Korea,[7] and was Asian editorial adviser of Lift Conference Asia. He was one of the founders of BarCamp Seoul and WebAppsCon.

He formerly held the position of CTO of, South Korea's first Korean online music & radio service,[8] before joining Daum Communications, the operator of the Daum web portal. At Daum, he was a API evangelist, supporting third-party developers using Daum's Open API[9] and started the first Korean Open-source software class as an adjunct professor, Dept. of Computer Engineering, at Jeju National University.[10]

He researched big data analysis with semantic web and medical informatics at Seoul National University[11] and focused on the Open-source software strategy of Big Data at Daum.[12]

He now works for Amazon Web Services as a technical evangelist in South Korea[13] and is an author of the AWS News Blog,[14] writing launch posts for new AWS services.

He is also known as the first Korean YouTube video uploader on August 9, 2005.[15]

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Notes and References

  1. News: South Korea Relaxes Curbs on Web Browsers. 30 June 2010. The Wall Street Journal. Evan Ramstad. Jaeyeon Woo. https://web.archive.org/web/20160314023316/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703964104575334742135824042. 2016-03-14.
  2. Web site: HTML 5.2. 14 December 2017 . W3.org . World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) . 14 December 2017.
  3. Web site: Watson. Mark . Web Cryptography API W3C Recommendation 26 January 2017. W3C. 26 January 2017.
  4. Web site: Web Standards Korea. webstandards.or.kr.
  5. Web site: ILG Members - The Web Standards Project. webstandards.org.
  6. News: MindTouch Names 20 Most Powerful Open-Source Voices of 2010 at OSBC. 18 March 2010. Eweek.com. Chris Preimesberger.
  7. News: A list of Channy Yun's columns. ZDNet Korea. ko.
  8. Book: Russell, Mark James. Pop Goes Korea : Behind the Revolution in Movies, Music, and Internet Culture. 2012. Stone Bridge Press. 9781611725421. Berkeley, California. 817875176.
  9. News: http://www.yonhapnews.co.kr/economy/2013/12/03/0302000000AKR20131203064800017.HTML . ko:다음, 검색·지도 등 개방형API 사용량 월3억건 돌파. Daum, 300 million Open APIs traffic per month. 3 December 2013. Yonhapnews. Oh Yejin (Korean: 오예진). ko.
  10. News: http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2007/08/29/2007082900616.html. ko:국내 최초 '오픈소스' 대학 강의 떴다. The first 'open source' university course in the country. 29 August 2007. Chosun Ilbo. Seo Myungdeok (Korean: 서명덕). ko. 13 February 2013. 18 August 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170818135514/http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2007/08/29/2007082900616.html. dead.
  11. News: http://www.bloter.net/archives/14519. ko:오픈소스를말한다 ⑭윤석찬 한국모질라 리더. Open Source Interview ⑭ Channy Yun, a leader of Mozilla Korea. 22 June 2009. Bloter.net. Do Ahngu (Korean: 도안구). ko. 13 February 2013. 21 August 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170821221857/http://www.bloter.net/archives/14519. dead.
  12. News: http://www.itworld.co.kr/news/78540 . ko:빅데이터월드 2012, 다음 윤석찬 팀장 "오픈소스 내재화 통해 실시간 분석으로". Big Data World 2012, Channy Yun "To real time analysis with the open source internalization". 30 October 2012. IDG Korea. Editorial. ko.
  13. News: http://www.zdnet.co.kr/news/news_view.asp?artice_id=20141229100001. ko:아마존클라우드, 내년 한국사업 3가지 키워드. Amazon Cloud's three keywords for Korean business in next year. 29 December 2014. ZDNet Korea. Hwang Chikyu (Korean: 황치규). ko.
  14. Web site: Channy Yun - AWS News Blog. 16 May 2019. Yun. Channy. AWS News Blog.
  15. News: Ilyong Kang(강일용). 6 June 2021. ko. 16년전 한국 최초 유튜브 영상..."썸녀가 딴 남자 만나 힘들어 술 마시는 내용". AjuNews.

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