[Economy pick] Do you remember "Cheonryan"?It's a museum of memories.

■ Host: Anchor Youngsoo Kim, anchor Lee Ha-rin
■ Starring: Choi Doo-hee, reporter for the Ministry of Economy,

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[Anchor]
This is the last keyword.

The first PC communication 'Cheonryan' in Korea completely ended its service yesterday (31st)?

[Reporter]
Before I tell you, I'm going to watch the video first and start talking about the topic today.

The screen that's coming out now, do you happen to know what movie it is?

It is the 1997 movie 'Connection', which contains a lot of emotions during PC communication.

Han Suk-kyu and Jeon Do-yeon starred in the movie, and it was very popular for the subject of PC communication chat, which was very new at the time.

It is also a movie that reflects the times well at that time.

This is because 'Cheonryan', which opened the door to domestic PC communication in 1985, completely ended its service yesterday (31st).

Chollian said it was difficult to maintain high-quality mail services due to changes in the business environment, making the decision to end the service difficult.

Earlier, Chollian started as a subsidiary service of 'Dacom', one of the telecommunications companies LG U+.

From the 1990s to the early 2000s, he led the 'PC communication era' with Hightel and Nownuri.

At that time, Chollian's status was similar to that of today's Naver, but it was impossible to go against the changing times.

With the advent of the Internet since 1999, the popularity of PC communication has rapidly declined.

[Anchor]
The traces of PC communication remain today to the extent that the words used by PC communication users at the time are still used, right?

[Reporter]
Yes. When it comes to PC communication, I don't know if you remember the modem connection sound that seems to scratch your ears like this.

Due to the nature of PC communication, the phone network was used, so if you used PC communication at the time, you could not use the phone at the same time.

Since it is a structure in which communication fees and information usage fees are paid together, there was a lot of trouble because of the fare bomb.

Short terms such as "Jungmo" and "Lightning" made by users to save fees have become buzzwords.

Most of these abbreviations are still in use.

In addition, Chollian's club function was loved a lot, and there were cases where they met here and led to marriage.

The movie 'Connection', which you saw for a while at first, also contains the beginning of the relationship through PC communication Unitel chat.

[Anchor]
However, yesterday (31st) even Chollian ended the service, so all the first-generation PC communication lines were cut off?

[Reporter]
Yes. Earlier, Hytel, Nownuri, and Unitel suspended their services in turn.

Hightel ended its service in 2007 and Nownuri in 2012.

In June 2022, Unitel suspended its service.

Chollian switched to a portal site and held on until the end, but the service ended yesterday (31st) and all the first-generation PC communication lines were cut off.

All memories, such as a space that symbolizes a breathless transition from analog to digital, a space where numerous memories of relationships are piled up, and the unique sound of a modem that used to be "beep beep" have disappeared into the back of history.

[Anchor]
Yes. The service ended yesterday (31st), but I hope it was a time to reflect on memories of PC communication as well as Chollian.

This has been reporter Choi Doo-hee.