As 2007 comes to an end a lot of new years lists are coming out. I just want to comment the selection of person of the year 2007 by iNews24, one of the largest IT news providers in Korea. They selected Son Ju Eun who is the CEO of the biggest e-learning company here, Megastudy. […]
Did you give your child an iPod for Christmas or maybe you received an iPhone yourself? Congratulations, you just supported the Korean industry. According to a recent Korean news report does an iPod Touch consist of up to 40% of products from Samsung or other Korean companies like Highnics.
Also the very much hyped iPhone […]
A major strangler for the growth of VoIP in Korea so far has been that people who want the service have to change their number. The for Koreans odd prefix 070- has been considered something unprofessional and the quality has been questioned. Traditionally the prefix is important in Korea and have been showing which service […]
Here comes a Christmas greeting from Seoul! I hope you enjoy the Christmas with many hard gifts under the tree. In Korea, Christmas has developed into a couple’s holiday (compare with Valentine’s Day) which differs pretty much from the Western family oriented way of celebrating.
However, not all guys have the fortunate possibility to spend the […]
TU Media has been able to acquire the simultaneous re-transmission rights from MBC according to an interesting article I just read. This represents a big step for TU Media but it comes two and a half years too late.
As TU Media started operations in mid 2005 it tried to acquire simultaneous re-transmission rights from broadcasters. […]
The TV market is rapidly changing and of course this is notable also in Korea. Mobile TV, IPTV and so on are changing the playground and many changes and merges are to be seen. I’m currently working on a mobile TV report but I just thought I should mention something about IPTV in Korea as […]
Four years before Second Life was launched and achieved success, a Korean service called Dada World with similar features was launched. Unfortunately did it fail and went under in the IT bubble but also for being ahead of its time in many ways. The project was led by a professor of Kwang Woon university who […]
Several Korean newspapers (such as The Electronic Times) reported today about how the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has made T-DMB one out of four global standards for mobile TV, the others being DVB-H, MediaFLO and 1seg.
All standards have their pros and cons of course. T-DMB is most extensively used and tested, with South Korea […]
