= NateOn Plugin =

Instant Messaging application / protocol, used in South Korea and developed by SK Communications, part of the SK Group - a large Korean Chaebol. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NateOn#NateOn NateOn] Messenger has surpassed MSN Messenger as the most popular IM client in South Korea.

From 2007 to 2011, a patch-set was being maintained by a Korean software developer named [http://web.archive.org/web/20080501012009/http://nateon.haz3.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=2 haze11], who maintained a forum for it at:
http://web.archive.org/web/20110318021733/http://nateon.haz3.com/

However, continued development seems to have forked as follows:

1) with the original developer, HazE, at

​https://launchpad.net/pidgin-nateon

2) with a privately maintained fork by Kaisyu at

​https://github.com/kaisyu/pidgin-nateon

 (note: for Windows OS builds, see ​http://blog.kaisyu.com/2011/12/pidgin-2101.html)