Archive for February, 2009

Naver.com to release Opencast this Sunday

Posted under Korea on Wednesday, 25 February 2009 by Joop Dorresteijn
South Korean search engine Naver.com announced the release of Opencast this Sunday March 1st. I had a brief introduction by an Naver employee about the new feature. In short, Opencast can be best described as a widget showing random blogposts with a Twitter-like subscription function. (get it?) Ah,...
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Enlightment about that foggy substance in the sky

Posted under Entrepreneurship on Friday, 20 February 2009 by admin
The Korean government sends text messages to all mobile phones every once in a while. This way of informing the nation is new to me and proves to be rather effective. Sometimes it's a simple request, asking to clean your porch from snow, but today I received a warning. "Tomorrow the yellow dust...
Enlightment about that foggy substance in the sky
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Web ventures on sale; RTL Interactive completes takeover of German social network

Posted under asides on Monday, 9 February 2009 by Joop Dorresteijn
RTL Interactive, the Internet brance of the RTL Group (German) announced their 100% takeover of Wer Kennt Wen. Marc Schröder, the CEO of RTL Interactive responded to the takeover in a interview with a German newspaper that RTL wants to become less dependent of tv advertisements, instead they...
Web ventures on sale; RTL Interactive completes takeover of German social network
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Adidas MBC Hangang Marathon 2009

Posted under sports, travel on Friday, 6 February 2009 by admin
I haven't participated in a sport event ever since the Funda run in 2008 - a fun and fulfilling event, but I had no incentive to continue my healthy habits afterwards. I put my running shoes back on later that year, to find out that I would never reach a peak of runners satisfaction again without a...
Adidas MBC Hangang Marathon 2009
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Times of distress brings families together in South Korea

Posted under Entrepreneurship on Thursday, 5 February 2009 by admin
Hold your horses, the financial crisis actually has some positive effects too! In South Korea, criminality is on the rise - making people long back to happy times at home. This is good news because many weddings are failing here due to struggles related to work. You see, every downside has its...
Times of distress brings families together in South Korea
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