I tried to visit blog Korea, but the site kept timing out on me. Later this month I’m going to install tatter on my space and see if I can navigate through it. I really wish that my software came with a Korean language pack, but so far no-one has translated it and I don’t have the skills. Apparantly if you translate it, you can have a free copy ($150 value). Any takers? It’s really powerful.Now, discussing the divide between the Korean and English blogging communities, I think that?€™s always going to be there, mostly on account of language. The way to rectify this, of course, would be to blog in Korean. If anyone wants to practice their Korean blogging skills you are more than welcome to join my Korean learning blog where we write in a mix of Korean and English: ??œ??­??´ ??°??????

BTW, the link to Blinger is dead, I’ve changed domains to http://eflgeek if you would be so kind as to update it.

If he is just seen as providing a forum for Korea bashers, that may be enough to set some people off.

One must also consider that the English-language medium of this blog would tend to weed out most people. You would be left with those native-Korean speakers who happened to be good enough at English to want to participate, those who thought that reading/writing here would be a good way to achieve cultural interaction and/or language practice, or (this is the group I worry about) those whose English skills are not that great but who go trawling for things that might make them upset.

Curious — As for Tatter Tools, it works like Wordpress or MT, i.e., you need to be running your own server. Like WP, it’s a breeze to install. I think it took me all of five minutes. What I haven’t figured out about it, however, is how to import data from WP, although by searching through their help forums, I saw ways to import from other engines.

Now, discussing the divide between the Korean and English blogging communities, I think that’s always going to be there, mostly on account of language. The way to rectify this, of course, would be to blog in Korean. That being said, I hope through Blog Korea we can start at least some interaction.

Marmot: How does Tatter Tools work? Does it work with a blog host, or do you have to be running your own server, or what? I’m glad to see you’re reaching out to the Korean blogging community (although you may now start seeing angry posts from Netizens on some topics!); there seems to be a huge divide between the Korean and English blogging communities.