The Washington Post cites an article in the Hankyoreh about Google’s plans to accept South Korea’s real name system for Internet users.
If Google complies, it would mark the first time that the company has required visitors to its sites to enter such information, and it could set a precedent for how Google reacts in other [...]
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According to Yonhap, the financial downturn has boosted sales of books on finance, employment and religion, the last of which saw a 185 percent spike in sales last year. Cooking too was a big seller as more families are staying in to eat rather than dining out.
“Books are hardly luxury items. They are one of [...]
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An article in the JoongAng about a dirtbag lawyer who sued a teen for insulting him over an on-line gaming forum, claiming the comments were a violation of the telecommunications law – ala Minerva.
“I was wakened by the sound of something falling with a thud outside. I went out to see what was going on [...]
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As Seoul’s first snow this winter is already turning black, I find myself pondering the quirks of a language I have resolved — again — to learn.
I’m essentially at a very rudimentary level of Korean, which allows for basic communication with a lot of umms and ahhs and jerky hand gestures thrown in for emphasis. [...]
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South Korean authorities arrested an unemployed man on Wednesday suspected of being the author of a series of online postings critical of the government’s economic policy.
The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office arrested the 31-year-old identified by his surname Park on Wednesday and is conducting an investigation into whether he is indeed the netizen known as [...]
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An AP article that appeared in the IHT Friday about China’s online vigilantes was vaguely reminiscent of the wave of reports here in Korea that followed the suicide of actress Choe Jin-sil. In both cases, the internet became a medium for netizens to go on the attack against individuals seen to have violated societies mores. [...]
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A piece in the JoongAng reports that fewer and fewer residents in Seoul read books, preferring to watch TV or surf the Web in their spare time. According to the report, nearly 40 percent of those polled say they have not read a single book in the past year.
Looking at the numbers it’s no wonder [...]
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An article in the Chosun Ilbo raises the issue of Internet based rumors and their effect on Korea, pointing to the recent anti-US beef protests that nearly shut down the country and were fueled by a flood of mis-information over the saftey of US beef.
More recently is the impact such rumors have had on the [...]
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A couple of peices in today’s Korea Times point to the growing impact of Internet technology on Korean society. (Even on the remote Dokdo islets, seven hours by boat from the mainland, broadband has been installed.) The first is on the withdrawl of Sony Pictures from Korea, due to slumping sales caused by the nation’s [...]
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Today’s Korea Times reports that the shooting death of a South Korean tourist in NK on July 12th has revealed a breakdown in communications between the leaders of the two Koreas. The report noted a direct line between the two leaders set up during the Kim Dae Jung administration in 2000 as part of it’s Sunshine Policy [...]
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