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jung moon

South Korea aims to become Asia's new medical travel hub - 0 views

news.theage.com.au/...-travel-hub-20080430-29el.html

South Korea plastic surgery Korean Wave asia aims hub

shared by jung moon on 30 Sep 09 - Cached
  • the Seoul city government has launched a project to attract more foreign tourists seeking cosmetic surgery -- capitalising on the popularity of the "Korean Wave" of pop culture in Asia in recent years.
  • Cosmetic surgery is commonplace in South Korea. A Kyung Hee University survey in 2007 found that 47.3 percent of adults had experienced it.
jung moon

Korean families reunite for a few days - 3 views

news.theage.com.au/...-a-few-days-20090928-g8w3.html

shared by jung moon on 30 Sep 09 - Cached
  • jung moon on 30 Sep 09
     
    Even though South and North Koreans are 'Koreans', we cannot communicate each other because of many reasons.
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  • Nora Ibrahim on 04 Oct 09
     
    It is amazing isn't it.. so similar yet very different in many ways. Cultural differences due to the distance?
  • xuejiao lin on 05 Oct 09
     
    When I was in Liaoning University of China (it is located in the capital city named Shenyang in Liaoning Province, which adjoins North Koreans), I had a very good friend as my roommate who came from Pyongyang. She was quiet and polite all the time. Meanwhile she even did not like to see those called Roman porn films made by South Korean. She was really different from those many South Korean oversea students in China. Once a time, I asked her to tell me about the confliction between north and south in nowadays. She would say nothing but insisted that "finally, they(the south) will come to us(the north)". Unfortunitlly, she got disappeared at the beginning of the second half semester. Is she a spy?
  • jung moon on 07 Oct 09
     
    From Seoul to Pyongyang (capital city in North Korea) takes only 30 mins I heard. But these families (in the article) couldn't see each other over 50 years....
  • jermaine lee on 07 Oct 09
     
    I knew that South Koreans and North Koreans can't cross the border to visit each other, but i really don't know that they can't even send e-mails. It's such a pity that they don't know when they will see their relatives next time.
  • anonymous on 07 Oct 09
     
    It is reminiscent of families being split in East and West Germany. People would plan trips to Lake Balaton in Hungary to catch up. But that said they could send (censored) letters and make phone calls. If the North Korean Government are so kean to keep these families split up why are they allowing these meetings to take place? The cruelty of it all is hard to comprehend, seeing a loved one never to know if you will see them again.
jung moon

In South Korea, All of Life Is Mobile - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...25iht-mobile.html

technology mobile-phone South-Korea mobile life

shared by jung moon on 31 Jul 09 - Cached
  • For South Koreans, efforts to replace credit cards and cash hit their stride in 2004, when banks began issuing integrated circuit chips that slot into the mobile phones and allow them to work like credit cards at A.T.M.’s.
  • Mobile payment has been adopted in many parts of Europe and Asia, especially in Japan. Still, phones have a long way to go before replacing plastic.
  • For Kim Hee-young, her mobile is the Swiss Army knife of the digital era. When she wants ice cream, she just asks her phone, and it shows a list of ice cream shops — complete with their menus and customer reviews — and the shortest way to get there.
  • jung moon on 31 Jul 09
     
    mobile phone is like the Swiss Army knife of the digital era. (Kim Hee-young, a student)
xinning ji

American Thinker Blog: South Korean drama hits America - 0 views

www.americanthinker.com/..._korean_drama_hits_americ.html

shared by xinning ji on 23 Sep 09 - Cached
  • South Korea's television soap operas are finding big audiences overseas, including here in the Bay Area, as well as other major American cities with large Asian populations.
  • South Korean studios invested heavily in state—of—the—art production facilities, embodying the latest digital technology. Today, many Japanese films are shot in Korea, to take advantage of lower costs and better facilities there. And studio tours for tourists have become a big business.
anonymous

China Aims to Steady North Korea - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 08 Oct 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 08 Oct 09
     
    North Korea's leader gave an unusually exuberant welcome this week to the prime minister of China, whose trip was intensely monitored by the rest of the world for progress on efforts to halt North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
Rika Ninomiya

China eyes Asian and Western media funds | The Australian - 1 views

www.theaustralian.news.com.au/...0,,25941977-36418,00.html

Korea Japan Hollywood China Globalization CulturalProduct

shared by Rika Ninomiya on 25 Sep 09 - No Cached
  • CHINA Investment Corporation, the $US200billion ($243bn) state-run sovereign wealth fund, is planning to invest in several Western and Asian media funds.
  • The investments could give the Chinese government a direct stake in a rich variety of media content -- from South Korean television dramas and Japanese game shows to Hollywood blockbusters and globally franchised animation series.
Maria D'Amato

Millions set to disconnect their fixed-line phones - 0 views

www.theage.com.au/...line-phones-20090904-fbih.html

shared by Maria D'Amato on 08 Oct 09 - Cached
  • ABOUT 2 million people are considering ditching their fixed-line home phones, as Australians move closer to becoming one of the world's first wireless economies.
  • There are 105 mobiles for every 100 people, making Australia one of the most saturated markets in the world behind South Korea, with 114 mobile phones for every 100 people.
  • An ACMA study last year found the decline of fixed lines has been led by younger consumers. About 91 per cent of retirees said their main form of communication was the fixed-line phone, while 70 per cent of 18-to-31 year-olds consider mobile phones as their main form of communication.
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  • This year Telstra reported its fixed-line subscribers fell by four per cent to 9.2 million, while its mobile-phone subscribers increased four per cent to 9.7 million subscribers. An ACMA spokesman said Australians owned a total of 21.2 million mobile phones.
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