As reported by Yonhap News, Japanese video-game giant Nintendo Co. plans to finally release the “Wii” in South Korea. Trying to gain market share with respect to its competitors Sony and Microsoft, they will release the console about 1 year and a half after its initial release in the U.S. and Japan.
This clearly reveals some […]
Recently at my company Veyond, we have hired an intern from Mexico, and he constantly points out many of the differences between Mexico and Korea in terms of telecom, media and technology. This makes me think again about many of the advantageous things that my country, Korea, has achieved in terms of technology.
My thoughts don’t stop […]
It is hard to not notice that the giant event Consumers Electronic Show (CES) is taking place right now in glamorous Las Vegas. After a quick search for companies related to Korea I found 150 companies, a rather impressive number at such an international conference. However, when considering how world leading Korea is in fields […]
It looks like the competition between the two giants LG and Samsung will have the next round among new 3g phones. It is said that in response to the newly released LG KU990, Samsung is about to release its new model W380 with similar technological features. 5 mega pixels camera, optical zoom and other beneficial […]
These days I recieve several e-mails asking me what my company is doing in detail. I try to answer these questions as far as I can but due my limited time and chracteristics of e-mail, It was not always full enough.
So I had revised our company’s introduction material and made a simplified version. Thanks to […]
Yesterday I have been writing about “Digital Korea“ and today I thought I might recommend you another book which I have read recently, “Diamond Dilemma” by Tariq Hussain. Whereas “Digital Korea” is focusing on the TMT sector “Diamond Dilemma” takes a more global perspective and discusses the challenges and opportunities for Korean society, economy […]
Eye on South Korea by CNN
One thing which struck us recently is the global attention the Korean TMT sector is beginning to get. Recently CNN has conducted a series called “Eye on South Korea” with interesting articles and video clips about topics like CyWorld, next generation mobile handsets and “a day in the (digital) life […]
One interesting fact from outside of Korea: Yesterday the highly anticipated Blyk service has commenced service. It is a fully integrated invitation only MVNO offering a package of free minutes and SMS to a target group of 16-24 year-olds. This package is funded by targeted advertisements which will be send by partners of Blyk, one […]
This video clip is the moment at which Norwegian journalists sang a song to thank me for helping themselves during a study trip.
The Norwegian Journalist group has visited Korea for 5 days to learn and experience in the advanced TMT (Technology/media/telecom) sector. I organized the whole trip for them and also gave a brief lecture […]
