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Mobile Phone Communication with North Korea: Current Status PDF  | Print |  E-mail
Tuesday, 09 March 2010 01:28
Korea's Information Society 한국의 정보 사회 >> 
An article in today's Korea Times provides some very interesting specifics about how North Korean refugees in South Korea communicate with people in North Korea
by mobile phone.  Seo, Jae-pyong, the Secretary-General of a group called North Korea Intellectuals Solidarity (NKIS) said that NKIS has run a news outlet service based on mobile phone conversations with secret correspondents in North Korea since 2008.  The purpose of this effort is to provide more information about the...(Read whole news on source site)

 
Number of iPhone Users in Korea Reaches 400,000 PDF  | Print |  E-mail
Monday, 08 March 2010 00:35
Korea's Information Society 한국의 정보 사회 >> 
According to a KT Executive, as reported in today's Joongang Daily, there are now over 400,000 iPhone users in South Korea.  That amounts to an
average of about 4,000 people a day who have purchased the device since it was introduced last November 28.  For those of you keeping track, that also amounts to an annual sales rate of nearly 1.5 million phones.   I feel vindicated about the prediction I made in an earlier...(Read whole news on source site)

 
Korean Mobile Operators Prodded to Create Unified App Store PDF  | Print |  E-mail
Sunday, 07 March 2010 12:31
Korea's Information Society 한국의 정보 사회 >> 
As reported by The Korea Times today, the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) is prodding the nation's three mobile telephony carriers to create a unified application
store, to meet competition from Apple's iPhone.  Handset vendors Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, which each run their own online applications store, will also be allowed a chance to join...(Read whole news on source site)

 
Global Media Trends---Korean Media Trends PDF  | Print |  E-mail
Sunday, 07 March 2010 03:51
Korea's Information Society 한국의 정보 사회 >> 
From April 19-22, Fulbright Korea will be hosting a U.S. State Department-sponsored Social, Mobile and Visual Media Workshop on "Advising in the Digital Age."  The
workshop will be attended by fifteen Education USA advisors from around the Asian region with possibly some international involvement.  I've been asked to give a presentation...(Read whole news on source site)

 
Are You Kidding Me? A Bizarre Story About Online Gaming PDF  | Print |  E-mail
Thursday, 04 March 2010 17:50
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A bizarre, sad story related to online games. A married couple in Suwon, Korea has been arrested by the police for negligence of their parental

 
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