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Net-Nexus Seoul

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hit-the-baangs dept.

An anonymous reader writes: "Wired has a story in their new issue about Seoul, Korea and how it is The Bandwidth Capital of the World It is really interesting how popular the internet and cybercafes are as a social medium there. They also have a huge following of online game players, with over 70% of broadband users playing online. For me, the best quote about the business opportunities that have sprung up is '(We) wanted to focus on interaction. And what is more interactive than games? We made this market. We made new sectors. American media companies were just using online capacity to distribute offline media.'"

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  1. w00t by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    score... props to JP billy and steve over at ISD!

  2. Now if they could distribute some bulgogi! by ObviousGuy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I could really go for some dolsot bibim bap right now... Yum!

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  3. American media companies? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Yay. Long live fascism.

    Korea is doomed.

    1. Re:American media companies? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      North Korea isn't fascist either.It's the American media companies and the US in general which are fascist.

  4. top two reasons by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Top two reasons FreeBSD is better than linux ->
    right here

  5. Trans. From the Host Geek Pt. 1 by poopbot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
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    818-502-8310     trapped in a strange place. Not a good place either. This makes me think of like, 2001 or something. But like creepy. See it's all this white under fluorescent lights and I can't see any windows or even doors. All that's in here is this old-ass terminal. Man, what the fucked happened? Then I remembered: I "picked up" the ATM on my way home from work, but I forgot that it was the fourth Thursday of the motnh. Usualy the day I host D & D for the guys. The ATM must have ben there in my body when my frends came over. Wnoder what happened then?

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    END TRANSMISSION.

    - poopbot: news for turds, stuff that splatters
  6. Re:It's crazy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    kekekekeke, zerg rush. YOU GIEV SOJ ^_^

  7. Re:It's crazy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    kekeke? is that how koreans laugh?

  8. Re:It's crazy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    huk huk ^_^

  9. Re:It's crazy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    t.t

  10. Re:Net Nexus huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    -1, replied to the wrong comment ...

    cause that doesn't make any sense.

  11. Re:Ratings by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Its one those gay-ass things where you need to have your speakers on and plays some unexpected sound. This particular one is pretty lame.

  12. Re:Ratings by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    South Korea's a democracy, dipshit. Perhaps you were thinking of North Korea?

  13. Re:Ratings by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No, I was thinking of Canada.

  14. Better than eating your dog by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    .

    It's got to be better than eating your dog. I mean, between k-kogi, kimchi, and whores, there's not much else to do there.

    .

  15. And they still jail people for joining unions, too by labourstart · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    It's very nice to portray South Korea as a techies' paradise, but let's not forget the more than 50 individuals languishing in jails there for the "crime" of being trade union activists.

    The unions in South Korea also use the net, and they use broadband and they have been doing cutting edge stuff on the net for years, including daily video webcasts. But while the society is all very 21st century, or so it appears, in reality the present government is one of the most repressive Korea has ever known.

    If you want to help use the new technology to support the imprisoned Korean trade unionists, go here: http://www.labourstart.org/actnow.shtml

    To learn more about repression of trade unionists in Korea, go here: http://www.kctu.org or http://www.labourstart.org/korea/

    I know from past experience that one is likely to get flamed on Slashdot for even mentioning trade unions, but I guess that's not much of a sacrifice compared to what the Korean trade unionists are going through . . .

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