Korea, which is graves of worldwide internet firms?

The virtual reality service, “Second Life” withdraws from Korea.
Completion service of foreign company is insufficient.
The domestic user turned away.

The most popular site of virtual reality, the Second Life, stops their work in Korea. The Second Life is realizing virtual reality through three-dimensional.
The user can live another life in the Internet and they are using Avatar. The Second Life has lots of users in America and Europe. Two years ago, it advanced into Korea, but they leaves the Korean market now.

Similarly, the global Internet community, The My Space, also withdrew. It could not endure more than a one year. The My Space has about 200 million members in the world, but in Korea, it could not be noticed. The Google is also subjected to humiliation in Korea. It is a Super Dinosaur that its market share is more than 60 percents in the world, but in Korea its market share is too low.


◆ Providing service of foreign firms is not novel, so they cannot defeat domestic Internet site.


The reason why they fail to succeed their business is that their service is not fresh to Korean. For example, the My Face, it provides “Find Pals” service, but similar service has already existed in Korea. In 1999, “I Love School” was providing this service. After that, “Cyworld” was appearing, and it had about 2,400 thousand user. Nowadays, it is the number one ranking in Korea. And then, the avatar of the Second Life which was used to live virtual reality already used 10 years ago in Korea. One of the directors in the NC soft said, “The Avatar used in foreign site is not better than Korea, especially its graphic level is inferior to Korean graphic level.” and "In addition, this level can not bring down to the Korean level. "
In case of search site, Korea excels foreign firms at completion of service. In Google, when we search a certain word, its result is a little disordered, but In Naver, it shows clear result reconstructed which user are finding.
The Naver is providing diverse contents, for example news, shopping, weather forecast, dictionary, blog, U.C.C.(User Created Contents) and so on. That is to say, the Naver can provide service which can satisfy its customers. The Naver, to raise its completion of service, is managing 400 monitoring workers. It is trying to satisfy its customers.
Mr. Joo, who is doctor in Korean Internet & Security Agency said that the Naver has accumulated huge contents for many years, so the Google which aimed at worldwide people cannot provide convenient service like the Naver service.

◆Foreign service fails in localization in Korea.

It is a important factor that they failed in localization in Korea. They place too much confidence in their brand and they are not trying to bring down to Korean level. In fact, the My Face did not try to make contents which Korean prefer, and it only translated English into Korea. In addition, some foreign adhered to only their principle so they conflicted with Korean Government. Therefore, some foreign firms aroused unwelcome attention.
One of the authorized persons in foreign firms said that some foreign company hold the whole power about personnel management and marketing and instruct only Korean employee to follow only manual, so they can not deal with quickly Korean situation.

☞ Second Life
Second Life(SL) is a virtual world developed by Linden Lab that launched in 2003. The user can enable to live in Internet by using the Avatar. In virtual reality, they can go to school and buy something by using cyber cash. In addition residents in virtual world enable to interact with others through avatars and can explore, participate in individual and group activities. It is a kind of substitute satisfaction.








☞ SNS·(Social Networking Service)
In the Internet space, we can interact with other people and register some essays and photos. It is named as “온라인 인맥 구축 서비스”. Cyworld in Korea, My space and Face Book in America are representative. Face Book has three hundred million users and is so popular. It can be accessible by using wireless Internet.

Reference

http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2009/11/14/2009111400082.html?srchCol=news&srchUrl=news1

Second Life - http://secondlife.com/

Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=memW5zjGyFs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfsSGBraUhc

Face Book - http://ko-kr.facebook.com/


My Space - http://www.myspace.com/

How to manage stress on holidays?

Coping with the stress in Chusuk

# An office worker, Jang(36), she is getting a headache because Chusuk is just around corner. Last year, she was afraid of her relatives so she did not go anywhere in Chusuk. They always asked her that when she married. Nowadays, she is more sensitive.

# A housewife Yoon(44), She always fears that holiday is coming. When her relatives gather together, at first, they are very harmonious and happy. However, its atmosphere is getting serious. Finally they are arguing each other. Her son said, “Why do our relatives always have a quarrel?”.

On holidays, many people go to see their family or relatives. However, unfortunately, they are not good always. Sometimes, they are making a row. If its situation is happening again and again, their unique family affection(가족애) disappears. However, we don’t want to happen to that. In that case, how to handle our anger?

▲ An illustrator = Journalist Lee Chul won, burbuck@chosun.com

◆ We have something to do with each other, so we are fighting more.

The reason why we are fighting each other is that we are family. It is related to our brain. The renowned scholar Stephen Platek in America said that brain reaction is different depends on who they are. If we look at our family pictures and others pictures, reaction parts in brain are dissimilar. Our brain shows the same reaction when we are looking at our pictures and family pictures. However, when we are looking at others pictures, other parts in brain are responding. In other words, we recognize that family or relatives is the same with us. So relatives more trust each other than others, and we accept the same remark differently.
Therefore, one of your relatives said that “you should marry.” or “Why did not you get promotion?”, you are responding to a question sensitively. We think that relatives and we are the same. (I=relatives)

▲ Defense note about scolding of love(잔소리)

◆ We are patient, because of mother. It does not make sense, nowadays.

Professor Kim in Kyung Hee University said that some people think that she/he is the weak and then they can easily get angry to her/him who accepts their anger naturally. Therefore they choose their family or relatives. So it is liable to fighting on holidays. Children and husbands usually work off their stress to their mother or wives. In this case, women who are under great pressure, can lose their temper when they are working on Holidays. He said that in the past women are always patient because they are mother or wives, but nowadays they don’t bear it any longer. Therefore, after holidays gathering, we have a specific time that we can talk each other. In addition, husbands do not force their wives to be tolerant, and they should get a coffee for their wives or help them. Someone who is much afraid of holidays, she/he makes a plan how to deal with situation.

◆ Write a diary about your anger.

Professor Kim in Kyung Hee University said, “Our activity reduces in autumn and winter. This period is related to college entrance exam and something productive. So our stress is getting more aggravated, we might come down with melancholia. In addition, in autumn, we are more annoyed and easily losing our temper. So we are careful each other. "
So he suggests that we should write a diary about our anger. We can understand our problems and we can find a solution by writing a dairy. In addition, we unwittingly know that we are easily getting stressed about something which is very trivial and worthless. Therefore he thinks that we can control our stress by managing our anger, trying meditating in subway or bus, listening to favorite music.

Comments

Sometimes, upcoming holiday is so stressful. When I was preparing for entrance exam, I didn’t want to see my relatives, because I didn’t want to hear about exam. That year, I might be melancholy. However, I think it is unavoidable situations, so we cannot help hearing something which is good or bad. So, like this article, we have to manage our stress and try to overcome these conditions.
Many people are too busy so they can’t meet easily. In particular, we rarely see our relatives except for specific days or meeting. In this point, Chusuk or other holidays are important. Therefore, we should considerate each other and have a good time with our relatives.

Reference:

http://tinyurl.com/y9m7qs3

http://tinyurl.com/ybebc3c (the picture)

http://tinyurl.com/yczfdx5 (송편)

Ohno Became “Pro-Korean” ?

Lodged with Koreans and became familiar with 떡볶이

Ohno ran on the ice rink on September 25. He lead his team to semi-final of men's 1500m relay.

An American national athlete of short track, Apolo Anton Ohno, who was a nationwide foe of Koreans, became an enthusiastic ‘Pro-Korean’. He is now participating in 09 ISU World Cup short track speed skating held in the Mokdong ice rink. A journalist, Jung Se-young, met with him. After finishing the men's 5000m relay, Ohno said “Koreans misunderstood me so there was a time when I couldn’t come here. However it’s a history.”

In 2002 Saltlake Winter Olympic men’s 1500m, Ohno posed as being interrupted by Kim Dong-sung, who was Korean’s best player, while they are playing the game. Finally, Kim was disqualified and Koreans thought that Ohno stole a Golden Medal from him by doing a “Hollywood action” (this word is used among Koreans to refer to an exaggerated action).


men's 1500m final, 2002

“I didn’t do anything wrong, so I was so mortified.” he said. “ I was not be able to come to Korea until 2005 when I was relieved of my fear. When I arrived at the Incheon airport to participate in the World Cup held in Seoul in 2005, I was surrounded by many guards because I could be threatened by someone. I was so scared that I couldn’t come out of a hotel. However, I decided to clear up the misunderstanding instead of hiding away from Koreans."

Then, he had many interviews and went shopping in his free time. He thought that many people would blame him but a lot of people welcomed and embraced him instead of condemning him. He was touched by his fans who even saw him off at the airport so he became a pro-Korean.

He has trained with a Korean coach, Jang Kwon-Ok, since 2003 and he stayed with Korean players for three weeks in 2007. When Cho Sung-mun, who emigrate from Korea to America and became a American national athlete, suffered from an economic problem, Ohno helped him not to abandon skating. His father is Japanese so he has no aversion to Asian culture.

“Korean team is not only a rival but also a partner. They only think about short track all the time. That is why Korean team is very strong.” he said. By the time he finished the interview, 떡볶이 was cleaned up.

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