Seoul-based Enswers plans to extend Soompi into a video portal, based on relationships it already has to provide video search and copyright detection technology to Korean content providers.

The plan could be particularly interesting given Soompi’s audience is international by design, while online video licensing is traditionally not. A large part of Soompi’s audience is in the U.S., but the company has active members in more than 50 countries.

Soompi founder Susan Kang will remain with the site as chief evangelist, while CEO Joyce Kim will move on. Other terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Soompi has 1.4 million uniques and 22 million page views per month. It started as Kang’s personal Web site in 1998. With Kim at the helm, the company took seed funding in February 2010 from Softbank Ventures Korea.

Kim said she is likely to found another Web start-up. She hails from a family of tech entrepreneurs, including Jared Kim (her younger brother) of WeGame and Jason Calacanis (her brother-in-law) of Mahalo.

Enswers, which was founded in 2007, noted that this is the first time a Korea-based company has bought a Silicon Valley start-up to expand into the U.S. market.

I spent some time with Lilly at a conference in Hawaii last year (I know, boondoggle!) on a scavenger hunt team and can attest to the fact that he is as smart as he seems here in this video about the future of the open-source browser company.

Om Malik and his co-host, Joyce Kim, interview Wales, who has also founded Wikia and whose thoughts always interest us.

Here you go:

Nonetheless, here are two for the price of one (and, by price, we mean free) for your techie enjoyment.

Last month, Om Malik and his co-host, Joyce Kim, interviewed a bunch of folks while attending the TechCrunch40 conference, including the tracksuit-wearing, shaved-head-sporting Marc Andreessen (don’t get us wrong, we like the look). Also, extreme wonkery with Engadget guys and Chris Anderson of Wired on his book-worthy newest theory.

Then, it’s onto Dan’l Lewin, Microsoft’s go-to guy in Silicon Valley.

I have always thought Lewin was quite a charmer comparatively speaking (to most at Microsoft, that is, and not bad in general).

Watch carefully, as he is working as hard as he can to brush off the GoogleFacebookYouTube mindshare monster. Also, Lewin says exactly zero about Microsoft’s intentions toward Facebook.

Is it just me or does it seem exactly one million years ago when Microsoft was considered the scary Bigfoot?

It’s a nice get in the wake of the $350 million sale of the email start-up to Yahoo, a story we broke last week in this column here.

They also chat with VC Jeff Clavier, who has a new seed-stage fund.

Here also is the video interview I did with Brad Garlinghouse of Yahoo, who led the acquisition of Zimbra, the morning the deal was announced:

I did a three-part series of interviews with Max, as well as doing a video of a visit I paid to the widgetmaker’s offices in San Francisco, and I posted them all yesterday.

But here is the GigaOm Show’s take on Max. Also, Om says a bad word!

And I only had to ask nice once after I complained in a post here that the online video show was not viral. Horrors!

Malik hosts the interview show weekly with lawyer Joyce Kim. Now you can see me talking with them about my thoughts about Dow Jones under new owner Rupert Murdoch, as well as on topics like blogging, traditional journalism and the doings at Facebook and Yahoo.

The video also includes a session before mine with Ryan Block of Engadget. Plus you get to see a rare, limited-edition Walt Mossberg “Craplets!” T-shirt.

Thanks Jim! (And also for paper-airplane-sitting Louie, while I blabbered away.)

Here’s the video:

Please see this disclosure related to me and Google.

They included getting me to talk about what I really think of new owner Dow Jones owner Rupert Murdoch (quick summary: He’s certainly been a controversial media mogul, but we’ll see!), as well as my thoughts about blogging, traditional journalism and my two favorite Web companies to report on right now, Facebook and Yahoo.

Bonus: First up in the program is the always clever Ryan Block of Engadget, who I think is one of the sassier tech reporters out there.

I seem unable to embed the whole program–Om, get on it!–but you can see it here, and also hear it, too. But here are some pictures below, including me showing off my limited-edition Walt Mossberg “Craplets!” T-shirt.

Please see this disclosure related to me and Google.

Valleywag wanted to know what the well-known tech blogger was up to, so we will tell them: an online television interview and analysis show on Revision3 called “The GigaOm Show.”

Along with tech lawyer Joyce Kim (who is also sister-in-law to Jason Calacanis), the weekly show will be 10-minute talks with various tech CEOs and start-up entrepreneurs.

Malik will handle the editorial and Revision3–founded by Digg founders Jay Adelson, Kevin Rose and others–will deal with production, distribution and ad sales.

The show will also appear on Malik’s site. And the first episode will premiere tomorrow night and will either be one of three interviews already in the digital can: RealNetworks’ Rob Glaser; Seagate’s Bill Watkins; or the ubiquitous entrepreneur James Hong. Sorry to miss the festivities, of course, but congrats to Malik.

One also wonders what TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington might announce at his party Friday night at August Capital. Maybe new funding, which is reportedly in place for the tech start-up bulletin board blog.

The always-cordial David Hornik of August extended an invite to that party, but I’ll be visiting Reuters, Yahoo and a spate of other Internet companies in London, you know, doing reporting.

While I hate to miss two good Silicon Valley parties, I will raise a glass to ever-expanding blog empires from some cozy pub.