Hope everybody has a wonderful holiday!
Archive > December 2008
Hub of…Music Piracy?
Not for long….
SEOUL, South Korea – Prosecutors indicted subsidiaries of two leading South Korean Web portals Tuesday on charges of allowing online music piracy activities, an official said.
Two subsidiaries of NHN Corp. and Daum Communications Corp. were charged with allowing users to post music files on their blogs and personal sites and let other [...]
Photo Classes in January
This is an announcement for photography classes that I’m conducting in the month of January. The original announcement’s on my own site, and I decided to make a short one here as well. If you are interested in getting your photography skills together once-and-for-all, or want to get the most out of your camera while [...]
박스안에 내 꺼!
Here’s the spirit, Mark — in Korean!
Now, you can share this special Christmas message — in all its lyrical glory — with ALL your Korean friends and coworkers! ㅋㅋ
(And to Mark, we wish you safe travels over there in Iraq this holiday season.)
Where’s the Spirit?
This blog needs some Christmas cheer. Aha…a Santa pic from Anamboy should do the trick….
By the way, so nobody gets accused of being sexist on the Hub, here is some junk in a box.
Dick in a Box
Microsoft Korean Translator
I used to prefer Google and really hate Windows Live Translator, but the translation team has steadily improved their machine translation over the past couple of years.
One awesome thing they have come out with is a translator bot that works with Live Messenger.
Here’s how it works…you add mtbot as a contact in Messenger. Then, [...]
Expat Personal Finance
I just made the first post in a three-part joint blogging project with Investing Won over at SeoulSteves. The series focuses specifically on taking control of your personal finances and preparing for the long-term future. Particularly important in light of the ongoing financial troubles.
Of course I just heard that the won is a little bit [...]
Cthulhu Attacks: An Illustrated Kimchi Tutorial
You’ve been told it’s difficult, that the stars must be in proper alignment. Only those initiated into the cult of the dread ajuma can summon the proper level of han to assure the kimchi is preserved by the spells of the mighty.
LIES!
Fatman will not bore you with false modesty.
We have made the ultimate, definitive, illustrated [...]
Quick! Shut down 98.7% of the Computers in Korea
BBC News reports a serious security flaw in Internet Explorer: serious enough IE users are advised to switch browsers until the problem is fixed
(and then return to IE because…..?)
In related news, the blog Mozilla In Asia reported in September that 98.7% of internet users in Korea surf with Internet Explorer. For more reading, check out [...]
Korean Women love U.S. Beef
I’m sure no one’s all that surprised that the controversy over US beef is all but forgotten, but I thought I’d point out an article posted today on BeefMagazine.com (surprisingly NOT a gay porn site):
Two prominent South Korean women’s magazines have featured U.S. beef in their December issues, signaling a possible change in the public [...]
“Rote memorization is oppression”
On the day of the university entrance exam, Roboseyo posted about this protest against the exam. I just found an article from a week and a half ago at Yonhap titled “Young activists risk future in breaking from ‘oppressive’ school system,” which looks at two of the students who took part in the protest and [...]
Sad News from Mokpo
Nerine Viljoen, the South African teacher burned in an apartment two weeks ago in Mokpo, has died of her injuries.
From the Nerine Viljoen Facebook page:
Hi everyone
Nerine passed away at 11:00 this morning.(Korean time) Her heart failed and the doctors could not get it going again. The memorial service will be Tuesday morning in Mokpo. I [...]
