August, 2000
Imagedrome, Inc. got authenticated as a 'venture business'* by the Small & Medium Business Administration(SMBA). (http://www.smba.go.kr/english/index.html)
Imagedrome, Inc. was appointed as a venture business company by SMBA on August 2, 2000. As being appointed as a venture company, Imagedrome, Inc. is expected to accelerate its growth of businesses including web consulting and 3D digital content development.
* A Venture Business Certification is given to those start-up companies which meet the strict requirements set by Small & Medium Business Administration, and this favors the qualified companies in many aspects, including favorable investment from venture capital firms and the many privileges when going public.


July, 2000
Imagedrome, Inc. (Korea) established.
Imagedrome (Korea) was transformed into an incorporated company,
Imagedrome, Inc. Imagedrome, Inc. was established by issuing 200,000 stocks (with the par-value of ￦500, therefore, the capital stock amounts to ￦100 Mil.), and it took over all the businesses, rights and responsibilities of old Imagedrome (privately held company).


July, 2000
Ezpaper launched its English service.
Ezpaper, Inc., which is a subsidiary of Imagedrome, Inc., opened its English version site (beta version) on 1 July,2000.


May, 2000
Imagedrome,Inc. is to open the U.S. market.
Imagedrome, which owns Ezpaper,Inc, a leading mail magazine service provider in Korea, established Ezpaper USA at San Francisco to explore the new chances of the U.S. market with the mail magazine solutions and operation know-how. Ezpaper is an intermediary that links mail magazine publishers and their readers to get a variety of information and exciting content. Since the service was launched in May, 1999, Ezpaper has rapidly broadened its user base. As of middle of May, 2000, it has more than 5,500 mail magazines and more than 1.5 million members. The English version of Ezpaper is now on the process to launch and beta-test in late June.


May, 2000
Imagedrome, developed cinema portal ‘nkino.’
Imagedrome finished its recent project to develop the web site of cinema portal, ‘nKino.’
Imagedrome participated in prototyping the nkino’s 1st version web site in 1999, and implemented the full process of web site development including brand identity, content development, visual concept and user interface design, and design standardization guideline set-up.


April, 2000
dots:interactive kinetic art

• The winner of Interactive Design Annual 6, Self Promotion category, awarded by ‘Communication Arts’ (U.S.).
• The winner of 2000 Interactive Media Design Review, awarded by ‘I.D. Magazine’ (U.S.).
  

‘dots:interactive kinetic art’, released in a mixed media comprised of a book and a CD-ROM, is the first work of Imagedrome’s ‘Digital Experience series’ which is planned in order to find experimental digital art works. ‘dots’ is to express the artistic movements of two basic graphic elements, dots and lines. ‘dots’ is consist of 9 stages, which contain abstract images and/or movements aligned by the creator. Every user who experiences ‘dots’ may break, gather, move, convert and change not only the images but also the visual concepts that was intended by the creator just by the user’s own mind.
This work won the bronze award of 2000 Interactive Media Design Review from I.D. Magazine (U.S.), and the prize of Interactive Design Annual 6 award (category : Self Promotion) given by Communication Arts (U.S.).
‘dots’ is now available online at StoreJungle (http://store.jungle.co.kr), and will be released in the U.S. in the midst of June.


April, 2000
Ezpaper and Lycos Korea made strategic alliance. Lycos Korea started mail magazine service with Ezpaper from April 28th. With the strategic alliance between Ezpaper and Lycos Korea, it is more convenient for the existing Lycos users to gain a variety of information and content and to subscribe magazines of their choice under the search navigation interface of Lycos, which empowers Ezpaper’s mail magazine publishers to increase their mail magazine subscribers more quickly.