Empas () was a South Korean internet search engine and

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The service was launched in 1998 by Knowledge Plant Corporation (), which changed its name to Empas Corporation in 2004. The name ''Empas'' is a combination of ''e-media'' and ''compass''. It merged with Nate in 2009.

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Empas was one of South Korea's most popular web search engines, and competed with Daum, Nate, and

Naver Naver (; stylized as NAVER) is a South Korean online platform operated by the Naver Corporation. The company's products include a search engine, email hosting, blogs, maps, and mobile payment. History Naver was the first Korean web provide ...

. Empas was the second most popular web portal in the country from 2000 to 2001, by unique page view. Since the dominance of

started in 2003, however, the market share of Empas declined, and by late 2005, it had fallen into the fifth place amongst the South Korean web portals. In 2006, aiming to check its main competition Naver's rapid expansion, SK Communications (which owned South Korea's popular social networking website Cyworld) acquired Empas on 19 October 2006. With the reorganisation of SK Communications's business fields, Empas was merged with Nate.com, which was the original web portal of SK Communications, and became Nate on 1 March 2009.

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Empas on 27 February 2009, days before it became the Nate website

Nate, successor to Empas

SK Communications, Inc.
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