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jung moon

Korean families reunite for a few days - 3 views

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

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  • 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

Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea - 0 views

english.chosun.com/...200703260027.html

korean wave japanese pop culture drama

shared by jung moon on 27 Aug 09 - Cached
  • The success of these and other Japanese works in Korea is raising concerns that Japanese pop culture could once again dominate Korea.
  • Experts say the Korean entertainment industry's dependence on Japanese pop culture will increase because the Japanese novel and manga markets are popular around the world. According to the Korean Publishing Research Institute, as of 2006 the size of the Korean novel market was no more than W203 billion, while that of Japanese market stood at W724.3 billion. The gap for the manga markets was even greater, with the Japanese market (W4 trillion) some 40 times bigger than the Korean market (W124.2 billion).
  • Bae Won-keun, a researcher at the KPRI, says it is a shame that Korean entertainment companies scramble to snap up Japanese stories for quick returns rather than working to strengthen their creative power. "The entertainment industry should make more effort to cultivate young writers with fresh ideas," he adds.
anonymous

Mini promo movies hit China - 0 views

www.koreaherald.co.kr/...200909160054.asp

Korea films China hit Korean Wave Hanliu movies and dramas

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  • anonymous on 18 Sep 09
     
    Korea films, China hit, Korean Wave, Hanliu, Korean movies and dramas
  • Christoph Zed on 19 Sep 09
     
    Interesting promos, relating to this weeks reading 'Korean Media Flows', the spread of global consumerism and tourism.
anonymous

Shaping New Regional Governance in East Asia: A Common Vision for Mutual Benefit and Co... - 0 views

www.koreatimes.co.kr/...120_49963.html

east Asia security economy Official Development Assistance (ODA)

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  • anonymous on 18 Sep 09
     
    Shaping New Regional Governance in East Asia: A Common Vision for Mutual Benefit and Common Prosperity
  • Christoph Zed on 19 Sep 09
     
    `A peaceful solution to the Korean problem will be a starting point for common prosperity and mutual benefit in East Asia, where security matters such as the North Korean nuclear issue have long intermingled,'' a news release said. ``Experts in their respective fields will engage in in-depth discussions and deepen mutual understanding, exploring ways to promote peace and prosperity on the Korean Peninsula as well as in East Asia.'' Anyone knows how John Howard get's to be there? Has he become an adviser of some sort? Would be interesting to see what his take on these things is, and what/who's agenda he presents?
jung moon

China's youth look to Seoul for inspiration - 0 views

www.chinadaily.com.cn/...content_509119_5.htm

korean wave chinese pop culture east asian pop culture

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  • jung moon on 27 Aug 09
     
    Korean wave in China (this article is written in 2006 but it is still useful)
jung moon

China's youth look to Seoul for inspiration - 0 views

www.chinadaily.com.cn/...content_509119.htm

shared by jung moon on 27 Aug 09 - Cached
  • oday, in China, South Korean missionaries are bringing Christianity with an Asian face. South Korean movies and dramas about urban professionals in Seoul, though not overtly political, present images of modern lives centering on individual happiness and sophisticated consumerism.
xinning ji

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

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

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  • 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.
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

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

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  • 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

Four days in North Korea. - By Sarah Wang - Slate Magazine - 0 views

www.slate.com/...all

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  • they couldn't use their computers or mobile phones—they weren't even allowed to bring them into the country.
    • xinning ji
      xinning ji on 13 Aug 09
       
      look, it is the digital divided in globalization. it is the unequal technological development around the world. there is the gap between rich and poor, developed and developing. it shold let us consider the global problem in the spread of information.
  • katherine ong on 10 Aug 09
     
    A North Korean visit
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

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  • 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.
jung moon

Asia Times Online :: South Asia news - 'Native English' is losing its power - 0 views

www.atimes.com/...HI15Df01.html

english' china culture international globalisation communication

shared by jung moon on 05 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Even as the English language continues its meteoric global rise, native speakers such as the North Americans, British and Australians will soon become a rare breed, overwhelmed by the many millions who have started speaking English as their second language.
  • the new lingua franca in what is now often called a flat world.
  • "So the balance of power is changing, and when the second-language speakers adopt English language as their own language or as a second language, they actually take control of it, mix it and use it with their own language, developing new forms, vocabulary and ways and using English."
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  • "China now produces over 20 million English speakers each year, and possibly within a few years, there could be more English speakers in China than in India."
  • Graddol's findings predict that by 2015, there will be about 2 billion people from Asia and non-English-speaking Europe learning English.
  • However, that is not necessarily good news for native English speakers. Instead, it could come as a big blow because "they can no longer look the other way, celebrating the rising hegemony of their language".
  • As English becomes more widely used as a global language, it will become expected that speakers will signal their nationality, and other aspects of their identity, through English, Graddol says. Lack of a native-speaker accent will not be seen, therefore, as a sign of poor competence.
  • jung moon on 07 Oct 09
     
    I hope someday I can speak 'Konglish (Korean English)' in everywhere. :D
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