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SEOUL -- The two biggest Internet search engines in South Korea filed a complaint on Friday with the Fair Trade Commission, charging that Google was blocking the installation of their services on smartphones preloaded with Google's Android operating system. The NHN Corporation, which owns Naver, the largest search portal, and Daum, the No. 2 portal, asked South Korea's trade commission to investigate whether Google had improperly maneuvered to have Android preinstalled on most smartphones being sold in the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

SEOUL, South Korea -- Forty Web sites in South Korea were attacked by a computer virus on Friday, including the official sites of the presidential Blue House, the Foreign Ministry, the country's biggest bank, the country's two largest search engines, a major online auction house and some American and Korean military sites. It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack, but the National Police Agency is investigating the assault, which was discovered by AhnLab, an Internet security firm in Seoul. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- In a meeting at Google in 2004, the discussion turned to an e-mail message the company had received from a fan in South Korea. Sergey Brin, a Google founder, ran the message through an automatic translation service that the company had licensed. The message said Google was a favorite search engine, but the result read: ''The sliced raw fish shoes it wishes. Google green onion thing!'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents information on the rising trend of Internet searching in South Korea. The website Naver.com handles more than 77 percent of all Web searches in South Korea. 10.8 percent of all Web searches are controlled by the search portal Daum.net. NHN, online gaming site, used Korean language texts to make its website popular.