<Anchor> There



is one more thing that is attracting attention these days because of Tesla's founder, Elon Musk, like Bitcoin you saw earlier.

It is a voice-based SNS, a club house that allows you to communicate with strangers.

You need an invitation to sign up here, and that's expensive.



Reporter Kim Ki-tae analyzed the reason for its popularity.



<Reporter> This



is the SNS'Club House' where so-called'hipsters' who are chasing the latest fashion gather.



I entered a room where I had a conversation about travel and parenting.



We share our daily life by talking with strangers.



[Boys are simple.

The problem is, the youngest woke up right now, I'll go for a moment.] When



I made a room with the theme of'Why do you do a club house?



[Yum Tae-kyung/Clubhouse user: You can know a lot of real information such as stocks...

These days, you can have fun while doing something like a vocal chord.]



Club House is an interactive voice-based SNS developed by an American startup last year.



As Tesla's CEO Elon Musk can communicate with celebrities through this app, users are enthusiastic, and subscribers surged from 600,000 at the end of last year to more than 6 million.



Voice communication has become an attractive alternative for those who are frustrated with text and burdened with video exposure.



Since it is a structure that can only be used by receiving invitations from existing subscribers, invitations to clubhouses are sometimes traded through online marketplaces.



It is an analysis that the secret of popularity is providing the optimal communication space for people who feel isolated in the corona era.



[Jung-Woo Koo/Professor, Sungkyunkwan University, Department of Sociology: In our society, where information is abundant, there seems to be a desire to obtain good information from verified people.] The



topics covered in the clubhouse are practically limited in politics, economy, culture, social issues There is no.



The Chinese government blocked access to clubhouses in mainland China after debates over sensitive political topics such as Xinjiang Uighur concentration camps, Taiwan independence and Hong Kong National Security Law.



(Video coverage: Kang Dong-cheol, Video editing: Lee Seung-hee)