<< YouTube, the world's most popular online video-sharing website, launched a localised service in South Korea Wednesday to capitalise on the country's fast-growing user-created content market.
  
Sakina Ariswala, head of YouTube's international operation, said it has secured content from local companies for its Korean operation to supplement the vast collection of the US-based operation. >>

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080123/bs_wl_afp/skoreausitinternetgoogleyoutube_080123072743;_ylt=AhkJ47GHqX2sz8fO4g8CDjKs0NUE

From the launch conference:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2166/2213950040_c5a5cc515c.jpg
http://flickr.com/photos/ihoogle/2213950040

[photo by Seungho Han, CC{by-nc-nd} license]

Sakina Ariswala -> impressive person!!!

   * Product Lead International Search and Search Quality at Google
   * Software Engg. at Yahoo!
   * Software Engineer at Altavista

needless to say em Asian Women are running the show .. :)-=

On a kind of related note, their localized versions really screw around with their blog. For example, this thread – http://blogoscoped.com/forum/121439.html – linked to a YouTube blog post:

http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=CkScMS0940c

But because I have YouTube set to show me the UK version, it forwards me to this post, which doesn't exist (because each local version maintains its own blog):

http://uk.youtube.com/blog?entry=CkScMS0940c

And the only way to get the blog post is to change my preferred country.

Seriously YouTube, a permalink should be a permalink. No redirects please!