everybody else got excited about Steem (and Steemit) again.@gavvet, it seems to be the entire ecosystem got a huge shot in the arm when UpBit entered their alliance with Bittrex and suddenly Steem and SBD became a hot thing on a Korean exchange... and then
Translate the numbers by country to percentages of the population, Steemit has by far the greatest penetration in South Korea. Compare no. 1 & 2, US and Korea... close on the chart, but the US population is 323 million vs. S. Korea 51 million... a 6-to-1 ratio.