Humor University

Humoruniversity (Korean: 웃긴대학; Ut-dae, 웃대 for short) is a

South Korean internet forum. As one of the earliest internet forums Humoruniversity (웃긴대학)
in South Korea, it is continuing its long-run as a main internet site Type of site Internet forum
served for young people. Beside the forum's name, the founder Kim Available in Korean
Sang-yoo (김상유) is often called 웃대총장 (president of
Humoruniversity) although his real nickname is 휘파람 (directly Owner (주)웃긴대학재단
translated as 'whistle'), is . It has shorted url such as huv.kr and ㅋ Created by Kim Sang-yoo
ㅋ.com (which leads directly to mobile page). The redirection page
URL humoruniv.com (htt
(huv.kr) itself conquers 1,002th Alexa rank in South Korean
p://humoruniv.com)
Internet.[2]
Alexa rank 4,377 (August
2018)[1]

Contents Commercial Yes

Registration Optional
System
Registration and cybermoney Launched August 24, 1998
Current status Active
Forums
References Korean name
Hangul 웃긴대학
Hanja 웃긴大學
System
Revised Utgindaehak
Each forum is more likely an internet board, with Romanization
forum>post>comments hierarchy. On each forum, The top image of McCune– Utkindaehak
the post is displayed with the title so you can click on it. If the post Reischauer
doesn't have an image, a title is only shown. Every posts and
comment can get Likes (추천) or Dislikes (반대). While the usual comments are colorless, more 'likes' to
comments makes it redder (from 5 likes without any dislikes) and thicker. Each forum has 'daily best',
'weekly best', and some forum has 'monthly best' consisting posts with most 'likes'. Top five of best posts
(usually daily and weekly ones) are displayed on the first page of each forum. Anyone can push like button
in any posts/comments but should login to push the dislike button. A requirement of registration for pushing
the dislike button helps the site from 'dislike terrorism' (비추테러).

Registration and cybermoney

You need to be over 14 years old and need a Naver mail account for registration. After registration, you can
use cybermoney called gae-nyeom (개념; literally 'concept', but in Korean slang, it means 'common sense')
to buy user icons (which is a pixel image appearing left of the nickname) or to donate to certain post's
creator. Buying/Create-for-using 1 user icon costs 2 gae-nyeom, which is ₩200.

Forums
The most active forum is fun posts (웃긴자료), which scraps posts that reached a certain threshold of 'likes
and dislikes', from the waiting posts (대기자료). knowledge KIN (지식KIN) (KIN is Korean internet slang
used for raging someone - and a parody of Korea's most used QnA website Naver Knowledge IN) was once
a trending forum but nowadays it has less than one post per day. The forum has its own cartoon page (웃대
툰), which has been a place for lots of Korea's best internet cartoonists, making the internet flow called '병
맛' (idiotic taste) that defined the internet of the early 2010s.

References
1. "humoruniv.com Site Info" (https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/humoruniv.com). Alexa Internet.
Retrieved 2018-08-08.
2. "huv.kr Site Info" (https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/huv.kr). Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2018-08-08.

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