Chinese authorities have arrested three accomplices involved in the January hacker attack on popular Korean auction site “Auction,” the Korean subsidiary of eBay.
Meanwhile, Chinese and Korean authorities have identified the actual hackers, a Korean and a Chinese, and are looking for them now, an unnamed Korean police official said.
The criminals hacked into the “Auction” database, [...]
Okay, not really, but the picture is deserving of some kind of (attempt at a) witty remark. It’s not every day you get a image of the two greatest living oligopolists of their respective countries conspiring with each other.
Anyways, looks like Bill Gates came to Korea on Tuesday to meet with LMB, business leaders and [...]
Korean computer skills (well, at least the computer skills of one Korean) are not to be messed with (El Universal):
The information found in the computers of the deceased leader of the rebel Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC), Raúl Reyes, was not manipulated by Colombian authorities, according to an Interpol’s report to be released next May [...]
So says today’s BusinessWeek Asia. With Samsung leaping past Motorola last year as the 2nd largest cellphone manufacturer and LG recently leaping past Sony Ericsson to take the #4 spot, consulting group Strategy Analytics says that Motorola is “…in real danger of being overtaken… by… [LG].”
It seems ever since they came up with the RAZR, [...]
OK, I will continue carry the banner of the Yi So-yeon around here (and don’t you naysayers try to shake it loose). Cheers to her as she came back to Korea yesterday and will soon start her new gig(Chosun).
Having earned a doctorate from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in February, Yi will now work [...]
She landed safely about half-an-hour ago. Congratulations, Miss Yi.
(I stuck this post under “IT Korea” since I couldn’t think of a better place to stick it.)
April 16, 2008 – 11:37 pm
Chris DeWolfe of MySpace was just in Korea (Yonsei U.) to announce the Korean version of MySpace.com and it is already looking better than Cyworld since U.S. Cyworld users can not send messages to Cyworld users in Korea or access their account through the Korean portal (infranet!?).
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Something that my friend passed on to me today.
Be sure to check out the comment section after you check out the hot models.
January 28, 2008 – 9:34 am
If you’d like to install Hangul 2005 (or a 60-day trial version thereof) in Ubuntu — and if you’re an Ubuntu user in Korea, I’ll assume you do — here’s how to do it.
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January 23, 2008 – 11:00 am
Google Earth is getting some media attention here in Korea, after a netizen discovered that some S. Korean locations were marked as N. Korean. The locations cited are Ongjin, Baegryeong-do, Daecheong-do, and Socheong-do. Google Korea responded by stating that “it had not been able to update Google Earth, since it had not received map data from the Korean [...]
January 18, 2008 – 1:34 pm
Will a jointly developed version of Linux bring the two Korea’s together?
January 5, 2008 – 3:10 pm
Haansoft, the people that brought you the Hangul Word Processor, have released Asianux Desktop 3, an updated version of their Linux OS (complete with 3D computing environment), with an eye to breaking Microsoft’s deathgrip on the PC operating system market. The product looks super-cool, and as a Linux user, I wish them the best of [...]
December 28, 2007 – 9:04 am
Samsung Electronics has filed a complaint against Sharp over patents filed in the US by Samsung. Sharp earlier this month sued Samsung in South Korea and Texas, claiming patent violations over LCD technology, but apparently part of the controversy seems to be price-fixing between vendors such as LG, Sharp, Phillips and Samsung.
Likewise, Samsung has [...]
November 15, 2007 – 2:06 pm
The Kyunghyang Shinmun reports that according to OECD statistics, Korea has been bested by Japan when it comes to broadband download speeds and broadband connection price.
October 16, 2007 – 2:08 pm
Culture critic Chin Jung-kwon might have gotten savaged by certain quarters of the netizen community for daring to say “D-War” sucked, but he did get an LA Times interview out of it.
The money shot?
“They are fanatics, and they are mobilized on the Internet,” Chin says. “It’s dangerous. This is a country where people put their [...]
October 16, 2007 – 1:15 pm
And in local news, a 50-year-old civil servant at Gyeongsangnam-do Provincial Hall was arrested in Changwon on charges of fleeing the scene after he hit two parked cars while driving drunk.
The best part, though, is that after he was caught, he not only refused to take a Breathalyzer test, but he also allegedly assaulted — [...]
September 14, 2007 – 1:02 pm
Well, these are some very angry netizens. This Photoshop job, while cute, probably says a lot about the mentality of such folk. Some of the forum names are quite amusing, too — “Japs Never Change,” “Dirty Chinks We Must Watch Out For,” “Island Chinks, Taiwan,” “India, Kingdom of Fraud and Rape,” “Paki Beasts,” “African Trash [...]
August 20, 2007 – 11:12 pm
And in this installment of “What I Learned from Naver.com Today,” I learned that there was a 1988 version of the “Bourne Identity” staring Richard Chamberlain.
If you read Korean, the Hankyoreh’s “Esc Magazine” ran an interesting piece on how food bloggers can kill restaurants.
