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Korea World Leader in Broadband/Technology at Home
bozoman42 writes "67% of Korean Internet users are connected to broadband, some at 32Mbps! In fact, according to the Guardian Article, Korea is leading in nearly all walks of a modern high tech life. But there may be downsides. (Especially as covered here last week.)"
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1: http://newsforge.com/comments.pl?sid=27087&cid=29
2: http://newsforge.com/comments.pl?sid=27141&cid=29
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Now I know why half the spam in my mailbox is related to kornet.net. It appears the Koreans have taken it upon themselves to compete head-to-head in the great international spam delivery market.
Dropping all of Korea and China off the edge of the e-mail world is sounding better and better. It's bad enough that they're (probably inadvertently) relaying US spam through, but now I'm getting large piles of spam in languages I can't even recognize.
Uuuu. Just a note near-offtopic but which I think it deserves attention. "C and "K", in many European languages, have nearly the same intonations. For Spanish, Portuguese and French the correct name is Corea. At least for Russians is "Koreya". Germans seem to use the term Korea. English don't make a big difference between "C" and "K" but they seem to highly prefer to use "K" in names.
The correct name for Japan is Nippon and it seems that this is the way Japanese name its country. Besides Koreans and Japanese have completely different alphabets and intonations from us, Eurasians. So I don't get the reason why Japanese would be so pecky with one letter. I know that Japan and Korea have lots of problems between each other. However this story seems to have a reason completely different from what you state. The first europeans to reach East Asia were the Portuguese. So they named it Corea. But that was nearly 450 years ago and a lot of water went on since then. Today English is the main language in the world and Russian had lots to do with Korea (the Russian "C" is latin "S" btw). So I wouldn't be admired to see that this was the reason for the shift.
Much obliged for that link, but I feel sick to my stomach. Do you know how difficult one has it when trying to think of original physics theorems?
Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada, B3H 3J5
Europe never went the same way as some other countries. Even the huge backslash in Russia is nothing compared to what happened in some other places. The blistering fury, which blowed while Eastern block tried to reach its Western brothers/cousins, was mainly due to the fact that they were not so backward as it seems. Frankly, in the first years after Perestroika, things changed so fast that people joked that in this mood we "will reach and overcome America in its own remedy - Capitalism" (this didn't happen but that's another story). Besides, Europe was always crazy about technowars and the main problem was that a good part of it went once again in the technowar run after having a good dose of it in WWII. Europeans are very much alike and that's a reason why they don't love each other. But that's also the reaons why they can understand each other faster than anyone else.
However Korea is something completely different. They were for long under the grip of Imperial Japan. They suffered two of the most bloody wars of the 20th Century. One of them nearly turned the whole world again into war. Besides, Korea was not top in Science neither Technology. When South started its Long March it had a population in misery, ruled by one of the most bloody dictatorships and suffered several drawbacks from it. Its economy suffered from several problems and it had frequently serious inflationary hickes. It also as an endemic social/political conflict that frequently rises to clashes. Its politicians are also known to be severly corrupted and fall frequently into scandals.
However it is a fact that Korea is one of today's economic world powers, sometimes it even overshadows its past colonist, Japan. And its technological progress is on the top among many countries. Not many countries managed to reach such level. So I take the hat to these guys.
Bullcrap. I'll prove it. GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE BIGGEST IDIOT IN THE WORLD!! THE DMCA MUST BE ELIMINATED! WE MUST KICK EVERYONE WHO VOTED FOR IT OUT OF OFFICE! LONG LIVE COMMUNISM! (continue ad nausium)
Stifling free speech my butt. You have no clue what stifling free speech is. Why don't you go to China and try to pass out some copies of the Torah, Koran, or the Bible. Or go to Cuba and try to critize Castro. As the secret police are carting you butt off to jail (or worse) you would realize there is no "stifling" of free speech here.
Yes, there is some battling going on with the DMCA and issues like bnet, bug reporting, is code=speech, etc. But in the grand scheme of thing these are piss-ant problems that could actually be solved if you convinced enough people that they need solved. That is the nice thing about living in a Republic. SSSCA got stopped because people organized and spoke up. Heck, the web royalty act that RIAA sabotaged is getting push back by Jesse Helms of all people
So please, quit with the doom and gloom until you have something substantial to doom and gloom about.
Brian Ellenberger
I don't know what "Korea" is in Korean, but it may be spelt with a K because of the transliteration. Unless of course the sound of "Korea" in Korean is totally different (like Nippon). Japan I think comes from Latin. C is preferred by Latin-style languages K is preferred by Germanic-style languages. English is normally classified Germanic, but has lots of Latin roots, like from Old French