Today, we’re excited to introduce and announce the launch of koreaBANG, featuring original reports and translations of Korean internet news, trends, and pop culture, as well as translations of Korean netizen comments and reactions to the issues of the day in the world’s most wired country.

It’s like chinaSMACK…but for Korea.

Behind koreaBANG is an international team of Koreans and non-Koreans who are dedicated to providing the same broadly accessible, entertaining, and “raw” reporting of modern Korean society, through what becomes popular and what gets talked about online by Koreans themselves.

They fashion themselves as the “little sister site” to chinaSMACK.

“Oppa~~~!!!”

On koreaBANG right now:

koreaBANG will be updated daily, so be sure to bookmark it. You can also subscribe to the koreaBANG RSS feed, get email updates, like them on Facebook, or follow them on Twitter.

Please take a moment to go visit koreaBANG and show the koreaBANG crew some support.

Bragging rights go to the first chinaSMACK commenter to “sofa” koreaBANG.

Finally, if you’re interested in joining the team, send us an email introducing yourself and how you’d like to get involved. We’re looking forward to hearing from you.