Twitter is about to launch a Korean service

By Yoo Eun Lee

asiancorrespondent.com

It seems the Twit Korean is not very far away. The Hankyung newspaper’s IT journalist and a prolific Twitterer @kwang82 tweeted today that, “Twitter is about to launch a Korean service” and noticed that Evan Williams, Twitter’s co-founder, is planning to visit Seoul for a press conference tomorrow. His invitation card reads ‘Twitter Loves Korea’.

Twitter is only available in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian and Japanese, prompting some Korean twitterers touse Twitkr or Twit bird. As Blogger Ajenneja pointed out some of Twitter’s major functions, such as the hashtag, do not work properly in the Korean language and the Twit search gives terrible results when searched in Korean words longer than three syllables.

The exact purpose of the press conference is unknown but considering the recent changes in Twitter’s help desk, it’s more or less certain that Twitter in Korean is about to be realized. @Barunsori6 tweeted under the title [good news for fellow Twitterers not fluent in English] that Tweeter’s help center is now available in Korean, which was roundly welcomed with such comments as ‘Yay, finally! I can complain in Korean.’

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Park Chan-wook, an iPhone 4 to film “Paranmanjang”

South Korean Director Creates a Film with The iPhone 4

One of South Korea’s well known film directors, Park Chan-wook, has created a 30 minute fantasy film entitled “Paranmanjang,” (Ups and Downs) using the iPhone 4.  It is receiving quite a bit of publicity, including a recent article in the Los Angeles Times.  Park first achieved fame in 2000 with his film “Joint Security Area.”  The idea arose last fall just as he and his brother (and fellow director) Park Chan-kyong were set to begin filming a fantasy about a middle-aged fisherman who one day hauls a woman out of the water’s depths. That’s when South Korea’s exclusive iPhone distributor offered to finance the $130,000 project if the pair agreed to use the device to make a theater-quality film.

Thanks to  koreainformationsociety

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Kim Jong-un gets a birthday present

 

This video was posted onto Uriminzokkiri’s channel when it was compromised. It is a satire of North Korea’s current state of affairs, in which there is the ultimate corporatism (i.e. one small group ruling over many millions of people) and where the rulers swim in gold bullions, luxury cars and nuclear weapons while the layman starves.