Entrepreneurship
For Tiroler ski, Muju Korea is Austria’s top export project
Posted under Entrepreneurship, Korea, Netherlands, travel on Saturday, 20 February 2010 by Joop Dorresteijn
Last week we spent some time at Muju (무주) Ski resort in S-Korea. An Average area, with 25km of beginner and advanced ski slopes - aimed to host the 2010 winter Olympics, including four ski jump's, fun park and half pipe. But that wasn't what struck me most. It was the export of culture in this...
In San Francisco bay area
I'm together with Silvia Man in San Francisco bay area for the week (My hotel is right in city center), I will be updating this post from time to time and share my experiences. Driving our rented Nissan from San Francisco to San Jose, we're crashing dinner parties, conferences and visiting...
Gathered influential writers to bring you Asian tech news
Posted under China, Entrepreneurship, Japan, Korea, Media / In The News on Wednesday, 14 October 2009 by Joop Dorresteijn
I'd like to tell you about a new blog we have launched yesterday. First, let me tell you why we went through all the effort: Personally, I have kept a close eye on developments in countries like South-Korea, Taiwan and Japan over the last years, but have start to observe that India, Bangladesh,...
The 20 cent workout in Shanghai
A 40 year old Chinese man drives his motor bike with carrier filled with barbells, dumbbells and a radio to the park outside my Shanghai compound every evening. Upon arrival, he marks an area of roughly 40 square meters and unloads the heavy weights. Shortly after, the place is packed with...
Empty eight lane roads in Zibo
This week I was in Zibo (map), a 1.5 hours bus drive from the nearest airport of Jinan. There are about 4 million people living here. The city is known for material arts and it's rich resources. Due to the resources, the city is characterized by smog, due to coal mining and farmers. To...
Greetings from France!
I arrived in Castellane France. I couldn't resist to publish this picture of my desert yesterday.
I learned a few things in France:
When the camping has WIFI, it's hard to resist ^^
Badminton battles in the pool often end up in badminton parties.
You don't need a villa to have a good...
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...
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...
Google has a new Favicon, do you like it?
In other shocking news, Google changed their favicon again! As you might remember, Google updated their favicon to a rather *fugly* one last June. A few days later Google challenged its audience to come up with a better Favicon. - Chapeau Google, good strategy to get people sending in...
Gloomy skies over Osaka
Originally called OzakajÅ, this is one of Japan's most famous castles, it played a major role in the unification of Japan during the sixteenth century of the Azuchi-Momoyama period. Osaka Castle is situated on a plot of land roughly one kilometer square. It is built on two raised platforms of...
At a Korean PC room, playing Starcraft for two days straight
Posted under Entrepreneurship on Wednesday, 10 December 2008 by admin
Koreans love online gaming, example: This is a "PC room", where one can play multiplayer computer games online. PC rooms like this are extremely popular among South-Koreans, ever since Starcraft came out in 1997. You have a room like this every block! Interesting because the computer and broadband...
Now available: African land for overpopulated countries
I came across a news article about a project that just dazzled me. What can a country do that has little land but a lot of mouths to feed? Right, you can import! But what do you do as a logistics company when your turnover is decreasing because commodity prices are rising? Exactly: You lease your...
Biggest Korean newspaper Chosun hopeful about their digital future
Posted under Company visit, Entrepreneurship, featured on Wednesday, 12 November 2008 by Joop Dorresteijn
When will we see foldable e-paper on the street? Will advanced algorithms and Internet eventually put publishers out of business? – Nobody knows... But we do witness a devastating momentum for traditional publishers, how can these companies reinvent themselves? Are they doomed?
Chosun...
Why embracing mobile VoIP is vital for carriers
Breakthrough innovations happen when two technologies collide. VoIP software is emerging on the mobile phone and is becoming the next big thing in the mobile market.
Like to switch this costly inbound call to VoIP?
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology eliminates circuit switching and...
Did Europe fall of the map?
Posted under Entrepreneurship on Thursday, 9 October 2008 by Joop Dorresteijn
How do you explain the location of your home to a fellow city-citizen? You probably refer to the area or street you come from but someone from another city would initially be interested in the name your city. More extreme, A Greek in Italy would probably refer to Greece as one's home location. One...
[openidea] Stream free Internet TV on your iPhone and iPod Touch
More and more people are starting to watch TV on their mobile phone. Not so strange, the reason is simple: The amount of bored office clerks waiting for their bus/metro of train is huge! However, millions of iPhone and Touch users are not so fortunate and have to watch iTunes provided content,...
Living abroad? Think about your (future) wife!
Posted under China, Entrepreneurship, Korea, Netherlands on Monday, 6 October 2008 by Joop Dorresteijn
Ask yourself this: What things would you consider if you had an opportunity to work abroad? For many top executives and engineers, its not only the job they are thinking about. The main challenge is usually their free time, wife (or husband) and family. Ask yourself the question: if I will work in...
Blind mavericks; Why Apple will be the next Sony
Here's why Apple can't sustain their leading role. It's complicated, but stay with me for the next two paragraphs and it makes sense. Let's start off with an example of another key player to introduce the problem here, our friend from Redmond. Statement: Microsoft's Office Suite business-model is...
‘Build to last’ is bullcrap, consultants repeat and Startups suck.
Today we live in a world that is innovating exponentially. As a result, companies need to innovate more aggressively. In the old world, a company could "catch a next train" to catch up innovative developments. In the "new" world, that would be impossible. What's the difference? Gary Hamel explained...
Comparing Korean gas, wine and other prices with Europe
It's cheaper to live in New York, Hong Kong, Copenhagen or Paris then in Seoul. But not everything is expensive, taking a cab here four blocks further costs about 2 Euros, the same distance in Copenhagen or Paris would cost a lot more. Korean food is generally cheap, so are a lot of other things....
What can you leave to your descendant?
I visited a Korean art expo on Saturday the 23rd, and met a fascinating artist named Hae do Park. He dedicated his life to learn a new skill, and aims to inspire younger artists with his work. The combination of using silver and his apply his technique create objects that almost seem real.
The...
Meganova: Prepare for Urban lunches, Mc Donalds and a lot of beer
This summer, I woke up exited every day to go blogging for TheNextWeb at the Meganova office. The first week, we said to ourselves, wouldn't it be great if we finally reach the magical 4000 readers on the blog? After some hard work, we broke through the limit in the third week. Time for some...
Fast growing ad, gaming and education market in China
A delegation of 40 Dutch entrepreneurs and investors visited China last April, they visited marketing offices, gaming companies, multinationals and telecom companies in Shanghai and Chengdu and got their eyes opened to the dynamics and potentials in China. Some participants wrote down their...
If you like the web, I bet you love South Korea too
This is the conclusion of my web series about the internet in South Korea, published on ReadWriteWeb and TheNextWeb.org two weeks ago; I put it on my blog for completeness of the serie.
That is, if you like to be connected to the Internet all day, while enjoying the fastest connections in the...
Why most Koreans stopped using auction sites
Posted under Entrepreneurship on Friday, 6 June 2008 by Joop Dorresteijn
If we talk about auction websites we usually think of Ebay, but not in Korea. The Koreans experience the fierce competition between two auction portals, but recently, something changed.
Gmarket was founded in 2000 by Young Bae Ku, and had a revenue of 188 million dollar in 2007.The second...
Daum: boring, but innovative in user generated content
Posted under Entrepreneurship, Internet, Korea, Review on Wednesday, 28 May 2008 by Joop Dorresteijn
Daum communications is huge, they are the biggest operator of Korean websites and they also operate in China with 365ren.com, and in the U.S. with the acquired Lycos portal. The word 'Daum' is Korean for 'next', but at first sight, they might come over as another boring web portal aiming for...
Search engine Naver is best in localized results, example for others?
We see increasing amounts of search engines popping up on the internet, they are using advanced algorithms to come up with better results. Not in Korea, at least not at Naver. Employees analyze, index and produces content for their search engine by hand. Even though this labor intensity, they count...
Introduction to five popular Korean websites
Posted under Entrepreneurship on Monday, 26 May 2008 by Joop Dorresteijn
Today we will start creating a profile of populair South Korean websites. In the following days we will discuss the following websites:
1. cyworld.com (social network)Â
2. Naver.com  (Search engine)
3. Daum.net (Web portal, competitor of Nate)
4. empas.com (Search engine and...
A profile of the connectivity in South Korea
South Korea is the most connected country in the world, their network leaps far beyond that of Europe, the Arabic countries, China or the USA. It's all part of their vision to create an "ubiquitous networked world".
Well, I had to lookup the word ubiquitous, and found out that it means...
3 famous Dutch Internet Journalists
Posted under Entrepreneurship on Wednesday, 14 May 2008 by Joop Dorresteijn
This is a comparison of the blogs of three 'web celebrities' from the Netherlands over time. There are many Dutch 'web celebrities', but I want to focus on the famous internet journalists from our country.Â
I looked at two basic things when selecting these three characters. First; they...
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