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There's an interesting interview with the reporter who uncovered the fraud in the Korea Herald. He makes the point that the scientific community really dropped the ball here, and it was journalism that had to clean up the mess.

Yup sure sounds sounds like the appropriate people to bash. Who says there is no bias here?

Did anyone else see firefox crash while reading the article?
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/20 05/04/09/200504090026.asp

http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/archives/result_conte nts.asp?id=200408030037

Actually, I can answer my own question. According to this story from the Korea Herald, Red Flag will contributing knowledge, if not helping with the development:

"At ['a meeting of government officials and industry figures in Beijing on Saturday'], Chinese software company Red Flag Linux and its Japanese partner Miracle Linux presented the results of their joint efforts in developing 'Asianux,' software designed as a compatible open-source standard for Asia. Korean companies Hancom, Wow Linux and others also exchanged their knowledge with the overseas counterparts."

My only question..."Asianux"??

And I wonder who creates those beautiful Google logos for different occassions, and also the beautiful icons.

Your answer:
http://wk.koreaher ald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2002/03/22/2002032200 03.asp

Article found by a link from http://www.google.com/holidaylogos.html.

hehehe, someone at Google has a sense of humour, Dr. Seuss style. Nice link thanks.

Apparently it's a 23 year old Korean guy called Dennis Hwang. Hurray for Dennis! :)

What a great little bit of social engineering Google is employing! All the positive exposure, especially from such a well respected source of information, is helping improve the image of the Open Source movement. Thanks to Google and Dennis for supporting the community.

Thank you to Google and have a great year!

I'm sick of hearing about korean pride.
They should take pride in being human, not korean.

Gotta love their movie quota system that demands 40% of all movies shown be korean...

America needs to implement a 40% of all movies must be foreign rule. What with Bush and all.

Don't we all love the google logos...
Here is the guy behind them : logo guy

not that i hate the parent, but it doesnt need to be asked now.

here's a cache (hahaha, a google-cache of the previous logos, including the dilbert comic ones mentioned in the other reply

Dennis Hwang does them, I think just for fun.
There's more info out there for those who want to search.

Actually Korea has done a great deal in getting you online. The majority of the RAM used on computers now a days originate from Korea. Samsung is a Korean company. In addition, Korea is getting up there in terms of semiconductor manufacturing..

To really be deployable in an un-metered fashion with a reasonable business model, you need something much more spectrally efficient, like ArrayComm's i-BURST for high-speed data service. A recent demo in South Korea shows it working at 1 Mbit/s. Two of South Korea's big telcos, Hanaro and KT, are planning to roll it out next year some time. Remember that Korea is where CDMA got its start.

ArrayComm licensed some spectrum in Australia, where they plan to roll out a wireless broadband service in the major cities in just 5 MHz of TDD spectrum. It looks like recent FCC rule changes have made some national TDD spectrum licenses available in the U.S. as well

It uses IntelliCell spatial processing and spatial channels to get multiple users on the same spectrum, at the same time. I've been lucky enough to see the i-BURST system in action, and it looks pretty cool, is real, and actually works. There are other smart antenna companies as well that are working on broadband data products, but I don't think any of them are as far along as ArrayComm.

Five nabbed on charges of spying for N.K.

The National Intelligence Service (NIS) announced yesterday that it
caught five people who allegedly established a pro-North Korean
underground revolutionary group in the South on Pyongyang's
instructions and worked for the Communist regime.

The five former student activists were given secret names by North
Korea, and were ordered by Pyongyang to spread North Korea's juche, or
self-reliance, ideology among South Korean citizens in preparation for
a "revolution in the South," the NIS said.

They sent reports to North Korea and received orders from Pyongyang
through the Hotmail Web-based e-mail service, the NIS said.

I also spotted this article about a "Hacker's Lab" that allows crackers to work their way up to something like a "black belt" in cracking, by undertaking a series of canned cracks. It might be cool, might be lame, but it's kind of funny.