Monday, January 08, 2007

Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea: "Can the Korean Wave Crash Hollywood?

The Korean pop-culture wave has swept Asia. Now what? The challenges to Korean stars continue, and their next target is the heart of the international movie market, Hollywood. "
Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea: "LG Releases Special Hangul Edition of Shine Phone

LG Electronics released an edition of its Shine Phone that features a Hangul design on the casing by fashion designer Lee Sang-bong. On the reverse side of the handset, “Night of Counting Stars,” by poet Yoon Dong-joo is engraved, making a high-class design that combines the top-drawer appeal of Shine’s materials with the modern Hangul engraving."
Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea: "Korea Begins Exports of Super Low-Price Cell Phones "
Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea: "Number of High-Speed Internet Users Exceeds 14 Mil. "
Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea: "WiBro, DMB Rated World-Class Technologies

The country's wireless broadband technology or WiBro, and digital multimedia broadcasting or DMB are rated 'world class' technologies of the future, according to a study by the Korea Institute of Science and Technology and the Science and Technology Ministry on 21 next-generation technologies. The study compared Korea's technology level to that of other nations."
Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea: "Styling Phones for Korea and Abroad

Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics are introducing different cell phones for home and overseas markets. They change some of the functions or tinker with the color and design to satisfy the different taste of domestic and foreign customers."
Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea: "The Chosun Ilbo Guide to Web 2.0

'It is you who lead the world.” That, its evangelists believe, is the message of Web 2.0, where everybody can express themselves freely and share information, an Internet world created by ordinary people. Here, the Chosun Ilbo introduces the trends and companies in the U.S.’ Silicon Valley that are leading the development. "
Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea: "S.Korean Student Broadcasts to Entertain N.Koreans

Radio broadcasts produced by college students here will be aired in North Korea. Open Radio for North Korea announced that it will start broadcasting stories of South Korean college students from Monday to celebrate the radio station’s first anniversary. They include love stories, ballads, useful economic information and short historic dramas."
Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea: "Video Clip of Vicious School Bullying Sparks Uproar

A video clip showing a group of girl students assaulting another is inciting controversy on the Internet. In the six-minute clip, five or six students without any provocation attack the girl, one ripping off the victim’s glasses and beating her hands repeatedly down on the girl’s head. The victim bursts into tears, a signal for the rest to start battering her in a profanity-laced onslaught of kicking and punching. "
Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea: "Roh Attacks ‘Privilege’ in Media, Prosecution

President Roh Moo-hyun on Wednesday continued his verbal broadsides, attributing public hostility to his performance to “vested interests” such as public prosecutors, business and the media whose privileges he set out to erode."
Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea: "Korean Vs. U.S. Soaps

Devotees of U.S. soap operas are increasingly voting with their feet, watching them not only on cable or satellite TV channels but engaging in such illegal activities like posting episodes of popular dramas with Korean subtitles online just a few hours after they are broadcast in the U.S. Pundits say as their number explodes, the viewer ratings of Korean dramas are shrinking. More than 1.5 million such fans are estimated to be out there online, more than three times the number three years ago. "
Group of journalists awarded for work on freedom of press : National : Home: "Dong-A Ilbo reporters fired for defying government in 1975"
[Column] Film festivals 'write history' of Asian cinema
[Column] Film festivals 'write history' of Asian cinema
In Japan, relations with Korea sink to 20-year low : International : Home: "Territorial disputes, ideological shifts named in chill
TOKYO - The 'Korean wave' of popular culture has waned in Japan, and anti-Korean sentiment is now at a record high in the last twenty years."
S.K. gov't Internet sites only work with Microsoft programs : National : Home: "Citizens prepare to file suit against 'software discrimination' on the Web"
S. Koreans read more than ever, but some are distracted by Internet: survey : Arts & Entertainment : Home: "Free time on the weekend doesn't necessarily lead to more reading in South Korea, and the Internet tends to draw some readers' attention from books, according to a government survey released on Friday."
Internet far from being user-friendly for disabled : National : Home: "While some measures are in place, most sites still lack features to ease accessibilty"
South Korea’s top 10 news stories of 2006 : National : Home: "North’s nukes, real estate gone wild, Korean to head UN"
The next generation: young online entrepreneurs : Business : Home: "26 percent of Internet retailers run by those born in the 1980s"
Production up, profits down in Korean film industry : Arts & Entertainment : Home: "Number of Korean movies released in 2006 passes 100; as little as 3 broke even"
In political Web searches, netizens scour opposition party : National : Home: "Grand Nationals register heavy online hits, while Uri trails in cyber world"
Journalists find new work with presidential hopefuls : National : Home: "Overseeing media relations, former media workers spell good PR"