Posted on pagef30.com
This service was released in January of this year and I don’t think it’s gotten the fanfare it deserves. Daum is kind of comparable to Microsoft in that it was first on the scene when the internet first became well-known in the 90s, and for a while it was the site to go to. It was eventually replaced by Naver as the number one search engine and portal. This time though they’ve beaten their competitors to the punch by investing a ton of money to drive around Seoul and Gyeonggi-do (the province surrounding the capital city) and create their version of Street View, which they call Road View (로드뷰). Here’s what it looks like:
This is an intersection by COEX (an international convention centre) and a temple known as Bongeun-sa, where all the friendly cats are. The interface is all in Korean though so I’ll explain how to use it (it’s almost the same).
Related Link Here
Please Keep Reading Here
Posted on newdaily.co.kr Via uk.asiancorrespondent.com
국내 한 포털사이트가 운영 중인 360도 거리사진을 확인할 수 있는 ‘로드뷰’에 ‘신세계길’ 홍등가 모습이 적나라하게 드러나 물의를 빚고 있다.
블로그 ‘다다익선(http://jjangdd.tistory.com)’의 운영자 양연철 씨는 14일 “우연히 ○○ ‘로드뷰’를 둘러 보다…영등포 지역을 찾아 봤더니…그 곳엔 아직 떠나지 못한 몇 명의 아가씨가 손님을 기다리고 있었다”며 로드뷰 상에 드러난, 한 때 성매매 집결지로 유명했던 지역의 현재 모습을 공개했다.
양씨가 공개한 사진 속 풍경은 신세계 백화점 서울 영등포점 뒷 편에 이어진 길로 ‘철거 대상’에 오른 구역이다. 그러나 아직도 부분적으로 성매매가 이뤄지고 있음을 증명하듯 홍등가 유리창 사이로 탱크탑 혹은 비키니 차림의 상의를 걸친 성매매 여성들이 손님을 기다리고 있는 모습이 선명하게 찍혀있는 것을 볼 수 있다.
특히 사진 속에는 ‘신세계길’이라는 글자와 화살표가 있고 이곳의 지리를 모르는 사람도 로드뷰를 검색하면 쉽게 위치를 파악할 수 있게 돼 있어 사실상 집창촌을 안내하는 역할을 하고 있는 셈이다.
이에 대해 한 네티즌은 “홍등가를 촬영할 때 성매매 여성이 고스란히 담겨 있었음에도 불구하고 이같은 사진을 그대로 방치했다는 점은 도저히 간과할 수 없는 부분”이라며 “더욱이 로드뷰 검색을 통해 해당 위치가 소상히 소개됐다는 점에서 일부 청소년에게 악영향을 끼칠 수도 있었던 만큼, 앞으론 지도 제작시 이같은 부분에 좀더 신경을 썼으면 좋겠다”는 의견을 내비쳤다.
Please Keep Reading Here
Posted on mybridestory.com
I get asked all the time what goes on during the pae baek ceremony and finally… my awesome husband finished making an informative website that introduces what Paebaek ceremony is about. Not only you’re paying respect to your parents and in-laws, it’s so much fun getting dressed and getting amazing photos out of the ceremony. Besides, when will you ever do this again? For those who are interested in renting pae baek clothes & set up, just shoot me an email and I’ll be more than happy to refer you to Korean catering/rental companies I’ve worked with before.
Source : x72.xanga.comYou must check out http://www.mybridestory.com/paebaek for full descriptions & order of the ceremony. It also includes a video demonstration from the Asian Bridal show back in November.
Posted on irrawaddy.org
The North Korean arms cargo interdicted in Bangkok seems unlikely to be bound for Burma, despite ties between Pyongyang and the Naypyidaw military junta. Burmese junta strongman Snr-Gen Than Shwe visited Sri Lanka in November, reciprocating a visit made by Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa in June this year.
The final destination of the cache remains unclear. The crew claim that the airplane was to land in Sri Lanka to refuel, with the Ukraine as a final destination, apparently after the cargo had been dropped off elsewhere. Sri Lankan officials denied any knowledge that the embargo-breaking flight was going to land in that country.
Keep Reading Here
Posted on freewebs.com
I know this might seem like a lot of information to take in, but once you’ve been using Naver for a while it’ll all become like second nature to you . I tried to cover everything I could think of that you might encounter, but should you come across something during your searches that leaves you totally confused, feel free to leave a message on my LJ or send an e-mail to ask about it .
Please continue Reading Here
Posted on planetsizebrain.tistory.com
…………………………………………………..Clive Thompson, a columnist for WIRED magazine has recently shown his excitement about how the real-time Web is leaving Google behind. But I’d say that Koreans had been there, done that and do not have much good to share with others.
Source:image.ohmynews.com
From its early days in 1990s, the Korean Web has been the Web of immediacy, an ideal space for the restless young Koreans searching for an instant gratification with the help of their online peers. Naver, Daum and other key portals in Korea fostered the such trends by combining news and search box in their main page and soon growing as a single destination for the national conversation. Lastly, they topped them off with a display of the real-time beat of hot search keywords, maintaining them as one of the most prominent features for years, as it was the useful index for users to follow the hot conversation of the day. Naver has even released an iPhone app of its hot keyword service.
Funny thing is, many news media, hyper-sensitive about incoming search traffic from portals, has dutifully followed the hot search keywords up to the minute, generating relevant articles that include those keywords, and thus attracting bulk search traffic. Sometimes even news sites that pursue the quality journalism jumped on the bandwagon of keyword hunting, defending their action that the very fact Netizens are buzzing about some issues is good enough to warrant some follow-up stories.
It was a vicious cycle in the Web of immediacy, as the portal’s news content galvanized users to conduct a series of spontaneous online searches around the day’s hot keywords. And that in turn triggered news media to generate more articles about the issues, resulting in the growing dominance of the real-time Web among Koreans.
Please Keep Reading Here
Posted on blog.prkorea.com
Su neung is a kind of college entrance exam prepared by an official organization such as collegeboard in USA which makes SAT, AP and so on.
Source : Here
Posted on koreatimes.co.kr
One of the strangest things observant foreigners notice in Korea is how beautiful the movie and TV actresses are.
Indeed, the femme fatales in the movies and television dramas are so strikingly formed and celestially flawless in their features that one is easily convinced, just on the basis of what one sees in these media, that Korean women are the most beautifully blessed females on Earth.
Source: eskfps.com
Then the foreigner becomes somewhat puzzled by the fact that he almost never sees such heavenly beauties anywhere else in Korea. The females we encounter on the street, on the subway, or anywhere else in Korea, are so remarkably un-celestial, so ordinary looking, that we almost conclude that Korea has two completely different kinds of females: One incredibly beautiful and the other incredibly plain. The difference is so great that we almost wonder if Providence is involved in this unfair division among Korean females.
Sooner or later, perhaps sooner than later, foreign visitors discover the Providence they are thinking about is really a human agent called plastic surgery.
A recent report in The Korea Times was headlined: “30 Percent of College Students Seek Cosmetic Surgery.” I am not sure what this percentage really means, as this beautification game is known to have spread to the lowly ranks of society, like waitresses and cashiers, and even to men.
Please Keep Reading Here
Posted on yeinjee.com
College Scholastic Ability Test 수능 – Suneung
Source: News Naver Here , Here
It’s a day where stock market and offices were opened an hour late to ease the morning traffic; where flights had to be rescheduled during the listening test to avoid the slightest disturbance… and it’s a day where temples and churches were packed with parents praying for good performances from their kids.
Keep Reading Here
