The guys over at Living on the Planet have created a test version of Living In Korea, so take a look at it. There’s only so much they can play with the template, but there’s room to add some more local flavor in terms of logos, photos and the like. Anyway, I’m going to turn over any suggestions we have to the guys creating the site on Friday, and they’ll work on having the thing fully functional this weekend. I think this thing can turn out to be a really great tool to get our individual blogs greater readership and, perhaps even cooler, to forge closer ties with the English-language blogs in neighboring Asian countries (Living in China has been going for a while, and Living in Japan, Living in Singapore and others are in the pipe). I gather it’s also a good way to get more interaction with Korean-language bloggers. Anyway, send in your design, style and content suggestions.
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The distorted taegeukgi is going to offend someone in the Korean press.
Also, how about a background gif? There’s mine:
http://oranckay.net/blog//pics/bg1.gif
and many similar Korean-looking designs that might be worth trying, if we look around enough on Korean pages about things Korean.
I myself would prefer something that looks Korean to Koreans, instead of the usual taegeuk/peninsula theme that many in distant lands often think of first.
But that’s just me.
The distorted (and ugly) taegukgi-pic will scare off many offended
Korean readers. This would be very counterproductive, wouldn’t it?
Ah, well, I like the ??흹?쨌쨔?쨍째. But then, I’m not Korean. I also have no desire to engage the Korean press over it.
I agree the distorted flag will have to go if part of the purpose is to attract Koreans. If we only want foreigners then I would say keep it.
Looks good so far and I’m looking forward to the official launch.
Seconding oranckay, a background banner is in order to set the tone, maybe rotate images like Shilla jewelry, celadon ceramics, city scenes, mountains, so on. And please ditch the melting flag.
hi!
marmot!
this might be silly suggestion
but i think “naver.com” has many korean bloggers so i clicked ??흹??짯 and i could find 1140-50 blogs about this subject and i think sending e-mail to these people might be good idea because many koreans are interested in learning english and like to inform of korea to other people so they’ll like your site.
e-mail could be good like “send any good subject about korea to your e-mail or that site direct(in case they can translate it)
and
i can help!