If you use Korean e-commerce sites, your information may have been sold to highest bidder….
SEOUL (AFP) – South Korea said Friday it would launch a probe into security systems of major retailer Shinsegae and 24 other companies after private data on some 20 million customers was leaked.
The move came a day after police arrested [...]
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Korea’s Online Electric Vehicle
This appears to be an interesting leap forward from current hybrid vehicle technology. It looks a lot like a Smart car to me, but the fuel source is amazing….
Its inventors believe that this is the future of urban transport — but it was hard not to be underwhelmed as the test vehicle trundled around a [...]
Travel in Korea – Luke Warm iPhone App
Rob has written a well thought out piece on Korea’s almost constant seeking of some sort of brand for itself to promote to outsiders, but is always falling short because of it’s pigheadedness heavy handed approach(es)
Which is not to say there efforts aren’t well intentioned, and indeed the Travel in Korea’s (Is that the Korean Tourism Organisation [...]
Smartphone Transactions Getting Closer
You’ll remember earlier in February I was delighted by The Korea Times saying this:
Intelligent smartphones may end up rendered [sic] retarded by Korea’s crusty Internet regime.
In regards to the Financial Supervisory Service’s (FSS) insistance on using out dated unusable standards for security of smartphone related financial transactions.
The Hankyoreh has these words on the subject:
South Korea’s domestic [...]
Korean Robo-Maid
This should give the Japanese some competition….
SOUTH KOREA – Remember Rosie the robot housekeeper from the Jetsons? Now it’s reality. South Korean scientists have come up with a working robot that does housework.
The walking robot maid has a rotating head containing a three-dimensional sensor so it can figure out what work you need [...]
Hub of Sparkle Infected?
Is it just me, or does anyone else continue to get virus/malware warnings whenever accessing Hub of Sparkle?
I usually get something to this effect….
Getting around the censors
Under the premise that the more you know, the better, the US is putting together a system to circumvent the web censorship going on in certain countries in the world.
Read more here.
And if you run firefox on your computer, you can see what it’s like to be a netizen in China, too: install the great [...]
Interesting reading about Freedom in Korean Cyberspace
A look at the way Korea’s oppressive, and unique internet control laws have led to Koreans migrating to places like google and twitter, and finding out what it’s like to blog, post, comment, and participate online without being traceable to a government ID number, and without having to worry about having their internet site, or [...]
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An appropriate soundtrack for this post:
News this week that South Korea has unveiled a domestically engineered and built helicopter the KUH (Korean Utility Helicopter) Surion:
Seen at it’s unveiling in front of dignitaries including President Ol’ Bung Eye Lee Myung Bak, The Surion is a dual use aircraft meaning it can be adapted for civilian use [...]
Buy the way…
…Uniqlo has changed their spring fashions, so download the screensaver or just stare mesmerized at the screen clock. They do an extended dance routine at the top of the hour.
7 Steps for Utilizing Skype
Building on the previous article I wrote about Web 2.0 for expats for a series of recent articles in my new project, Korpreneur.com, I thought a more detailed discussion about Skype would be interesting. It seems like people are intimidated by the prospect of setting it up, so I’ve done my best to outline the [...]
On Twitter
Building on the previous article I wrote about Web 2.0 for expats for a series of recent articles in my new project, Korpreneur.com, I thought a more detailed discussion about Twitter would be interesting. Many first sign up for Twitter, look around for a couple minutes and fail to see the point and never come [...]
