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- 2010/02/01 2010: a Year to Watch
- 2009/01/10 I'm Twittering, too.
- 2008/12/31 Happy New Year! (4)
- 2008/12/09 Sketching out Le Web '08 Paris
- 2008/12/06 Meet me at LeWeb Paris! (1)
- 2008/10/08 TechnoKimchi got a little facelift!
- 2008/01/16 a little bit different TechnoKimchi (3)
- 2008/01/16 Who is Taewoo Danny Kim? (5)
- 2008/01/10 I'M BACK FOR REAL! (10)
- 2007/11/15 TechnoKimchi at Web 2.0 Expo Tokyo! (3)
- 2007/10/17 Introducing TechnoKimchi
- 2007/10/17 Did you see me on CNN? (8)
- 2007/09/12 TechnoKimchi is... (1)
- 2007/08/21 State of Play V: Regulating Virtual Worlds, and Changes in Education, Connecting East and West (1)
- 2007/08/17 Heading off to Singapore for State of Play V (1)
2009 was a dark age for both the digital Korea and my blogging career. Fortunately, it was only dark on the surface. Some significant progresses were made and we're seeing the fruits in 2010.
As for Korea, there's probably no bigger milestone than iPhone's invasion into the Korean market. It's been out only for 2 months now and it's literally changing everything in the digital landscape. How fundamental do I think the change is? The iPad news last week was reported by more than 500 Korean news entities, probably making the biggest IT/digital headline ever in Korea. SKTelecom says it has nearly 15 Android phones lined up for this year. How exciting! (For me, I am carrying around a 8G iPod Touch with Wibro Egg for now, which I'll cover more later)
As for myself, I learned a lot, especially about being a serious blogger and a businessman. As a blogger, I used to whine about myself "not being in the field"; I always thought unless you've actually done some "real" stuff, being a blogger/journalist/analyst/consultant/critique/spectator always will have limitations. 2009 was all about execution, which took away the privilege of sleep from my life. Now I'm finally back, hopefully ready to roll again.
2010 is going to be a big year for both the digital Korea, (which is the main topic of this blog), as well as TechnoKimchi itself. After the Dark Age came Renaissance. There are many good signs that'll happen soon here as well.
Now, why didn't I start this on Jan 1st? I had followup tasks to finish for 2009 and things pretty much ended last week. Or should I say "the mental fiscal year for TechnoKimchi ends on Jan 31 of every year?" ;)
Digital Korea will soar again and TechnoKimchi will expand: those are my predictions for 2010. Thank God, I still got 334 days to prove that!
And..
My twitter page is the ugliest I've seen so far. But you can clearly see the TechnoKimchi logo on it. Please let me know if you find an uglier one. Maybe we'll put up an "the ugliest Twitter page" contest :)
Anyhow, as I repeatedly find myself not living up to my own expectations on updating TechnoKimchi, I've come to a compromise: that is to update lightly on Twitter. I know I'm a really late comer to the game, but this will surely make me feel less guilty about myself.
So, follow me and you shall prosper. More interesting stories to come soon!
p.s. I'm in Paris again, so if anyone's still around, let me know :)
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I just wanted to say "THANK YOU" to you all for all your support throughout and interests in TechnoKimchi. Although I have not been the most diligent (or even dependable) blogger, what I have actually learned through TechnoKimchi goes far beyond what words can describe.
So, I'm excited about 2009. There are still many cool and awesome things happening around the Internet in Korea and I'm just more than eager to see how my life will change along.
I've made some new years' resolutions already and one of them is to make TechnoKimchi one of the top priorities next year. Hopefully I'll have the tenacity to execute them. :)
The beautiful lady bowing in Korean traditional costume called 한복 (Hanbok) in the picture above is Jang Yoon Jung, one of the best known singers in Korea. Of course, I won't dress and bow to you guys like that, I really want to express how thankful I am.
2008 was personally a very difficult year for me in many ways; at the same time, TechnoKimchi really opened up many ways for me to explore more opportunities out in the world, and especially to meet you!
Expect more from TechnoKimchi; both you and I will enjoy 2009 more ^-^
Happy New Year! 새해 복 많이 받으세요!
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As I said, I'm in paris, attending the Le Web '08 conference. I've decided to update some pictures from the So, I'm in Paris now, attending Le Web '08. It's really great to be here, especially to represent to cool and stylish Internet fellows in Europe! I'm sketching out some scenes from the conference below. I'll do my best to update the conference info.
If you want to talk to me, don't hesitate! Remember, there aren't too many Asian guys around at this conference, so it should be easy for you to spot me :)
See you soon!
An unusual site for a conference. I persnoally love it!
Seesmic's Loic and his wife Geraldine's grand opening.
Mike Arrington of TechCrunch is working hard!
Steve Gillmor is inteviewing Microsoft's Dan'l Lewin on BizSpark.
Nikesh Arora from Google Europe and Loic are talking about the entrepreneurship in Europe. Many questions here were very similar to those discussed at Open Web Asia.
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Now you might ask, "so, is the fall/winter of 2008 a conference time for you?"
I go, "Yes!" After my stints with X Media Lab and Open Web Asia.
So, I'm heading to Paris on Monday for LeWeb '08 Paris. Why? I've been invited to be on the panel called "Embracing Asia's Market Explosion." What else would I talk about? :) Also on the panel are:
- Masashi Kobayashi - Co-Founder & Managing Partner,Infinity Ventures
- Kaiser Kuo -Group Director, Digital Strategy, Ogilvy China
- Frederick Henry Saurat - CEO & Co-founder The TMS Way Ltd. HK
Moderator: Thomas Crampton - www.thomascrampton.com
More than anything, I'm just honored to be on the panel and also thankful for those who got me there! Can't even begin to tell you how excited I am to meet the great people there and also visit Paris for the first time in my life!
I'm sticking around for few more days in the glorious city of Paris, so if you're planning to be there as well, don't hesitate to contact me.
You can always reach me at twdanny@gmail.com.
See you all there :)
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Design matters. And hopefully this new one is better than the old!
I just wanted to better present the content to you guys and make some additional space for more info (like for hosting Open Web Asia banners). I tweaked around one of the Tistory themes/skins and eve added a profile picture! Haha. This is far from being complete , but it's still getting there.
What do you guys think? While the newly designed TechnoKimchi still has a long way to go, it's still better than the old brownish monotonous one, right? Any suggestions are welcome as well :)
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Anyhow, Textcube comes with a plugin named Tatterdesk, which makes the blog kind of look like a magazine site. I applied the plugin to TechnoKimchi and that's why TechnoKimchi looks like what it looks like right now.
Of all the entries on the front page, the first part, shown below, is the list of most recent blog posts. You can see the actual dates of post creation.
Right below them are my hand-picked posts from this blog. I believe those posts will be quite helpful for those who visit TechnoKimchi for the first time.
What do you guys think? Is this format more reader-friendly than our common blog format with the most recent entry covering the top? I'm sorry that there are some Korean charaters here and there which some of you might not understand; however TechnoKimchi is soon going to be wearing new themes/skins so again, please wait with patience :)
Let me know what you guys think!
Some people have been emailing me asking who I am, what I do and stuff. Just thought I might have a brief introduction of myself here. I mean "relatively brief" :)
- Born in Korea, educated in U.S. from high school up to graduate school,
- A computer science major,
- Been back in Korea since 2003,
- Worked for a great company named Samsung SDS for about 4 years,
- Then quit the great company to become a full-time blogger (the first one in Korea as far as I know),
- Known as the "Web 2.0 Evangelist" in Korea for my passion and enthusiasm for the changes related to "Web 2.0",
- Blogger behind Taewoo's Log (Taewoo is my Korean name), one of the most widely read blogs in Korea with nearly 6,000 RSS subscribers, covering various aspects of the Web: technical, social, economic and legal,
- Enjoying his last year as twenty-something before turning the big 3-0 -> is no longer applicable as I've already turned 30 :),
- Author of the recently published book Meconomy, which examines the new economic landscape shaped by the Web with individuals being the powerful suppliers,
- And loves Korea, Music (esp. piano), NBA, all kinds of Asian food, and Jesus.
Since I took a big break from all knowledge-gaining activities late last year for personal reasons, I've been trying to fill up my knowledge buffer before I start pumping out great stuff about Korea. So just a little bit more patience, then you shall receive much :)
Always, thank you all!
For many personal and professional reasons, this blog has not been really taken care of for...say 2 months or so. But now it's 2008 and I'm ready to get it going again.
Fortunately, I've had a chance to talk to A LOT of people last couple of months in real life, over skype, and through email, etc. What's amazing is that people are still very interested in what's happening here in Korea. Of course, things here simply rock :)
Good news is that I'm getting my Wibro modem back tomorrow. To tell you the truth, I had lost it months ago and because of how the contract was structured, I wasn't able to get a new modem till now. Once I get it, you know TechnoKimchi is going WILD again!
Thanks for your patience and interests. I've needed some time to grow as a person more than anything, overcoming some of the personal hardships. (Yes, I was secretely in love with this girl and it didn't quite work out, so you know how hard that must've been --> this is when you use the expression "OTL") I think I'm through now and ready to fly for another exciting year.
By the way, my book is out. It's named "Meconomy", meaning that the current "Web 2.0" landscape encourages and even empowers individuals, (i.e. ME) to be the center of the economic force. You can purchase the Korean version of it HERE. Sorry, folks, so far it's ONLY in Korean, but for anyone who's interested, I'm up for publishing it in another language! If you're interested, please let me know.
I'll do my best to bring you all some good news and insight about the digital generation here. It'll be about e-sports league, digital devices, citizen journalism, Google vs. Naver, the new 3-D Cyworld, the importance of cultural understanding when going global, and some personal stories as well.
Just for your information, this is how I'm going to be smiling all year in 2008. See ya all soon :)
I'm in Tokyo with the openmaru team. Here goes my discloser: I've been working with openmaru, a Korean Web 2.0 service provider, for its English blog marketing. Indeed, its English blog has been run by me! (but I'm not an employee, just working on a partnership-based project)
I'm not sure if you guys have come across the blog or any of its services, but not because I'm the marketer, but even from a pure user point of view, you should most definitely try out the openmaru applications, such as Springnote. It simply rocks!
I'll be reporting from the Expo as well as interviewing famous dudes and companies in the Web 2.0-sphere. One thing interesting is that reporting will be done through 4 major channels: openmaru Korean blog, openmaru English blog, Taewoo's log (my Korean blog), and TechnoKimchi. Chances are I'll be posting a lot more stuff in Korean than in English.
But if you ever had questions regarding openmaru or me, or the Web and digital landscape in Korea, feel free to come around the openmaru booth to find me. I'm not there, other openmaru members will be more than kind enough to find me for you :)
I'm very excited to attend the conference for many reasons. But for TechnoKimchi, I think this will definitely mark an important milestone as this is the first time I'm officially exploring the Web in Asia, outside Korea. As I've been writing in my Korean blog, there are so many things that are just completely different about the Web and the digital culture in Japan from Korea that I'm almost lost. Too many thoughts in my head.
But for now, I'm resting for tomorrow. Hopefully, I'll be able to run into some of you guys!
I realized that I've been getting a huge traffic to this blog since the CNN broadcast. I've also been learning that this blog is not in its most user-friendly format: if you're a first-timer to this blog, chances are you'll probably get lost, not knowing where to begin.
So, I've decided to become my own editor for the day. I picked out some articles which I thought might be most interseting to you.
Luckily, I haven't written too many posts on this blog yet, making it not too difficult to pick out the articles.
So, here is the list. You probably want to read them in the order listed below. Have fun!
And, oh yeah. If you want to contact me, please don't hesitate to email me at
- Why TechnoKimchi? Explains what this blog is about and for.
- What the "digital generation" in Korea looks like A quick snapshot of what every day life technology is like in Korea.
- Are you excited about the 3.5G networks, too? A brief introduction to 3.5 generation networks deployment in Korea.
- First Wibro experiment: watching Joost on the bus and on highway My tiny test on WiBro in the middle of Seoul.
- What goes around comes around. My interview response on the social media landscape in Korea.
- Things are crazy over here! A knock on cultural differences on how we approach getting things done.
- Commenters, not commentators, as citizen journalists The power of portals in online journalism and a portrayal of what we do as citizen journalists.
Yes, that's right. I was featured LIVE on "CNN Today". I was interviewed by Kristie Lu Stout.
Yes, that's right. I'm talking THE Kristie Lu Stout :)
CNN is featuring a whole series called "Eye on South Korea". You'll purely love it! It's basically everything I've been trying to say at TechnoKimchi: what's it's like to have a digital generation like in Korea.
You can watch the video clip of my interview HERE.
At first, I thought it was really incredible that a little boy like me could be featured on such prestigious media like CNN. And it was possible because of this blog: THEY FOUND ME THROUGH TECHNOKIMCHI!
It's just so weird. Tons of people have been contacting me since the broadcast. Lots of people actually searched for the term "technokimchi" to land at this blog. What a day!
Below are some pictures taken from the set. I'll go over more on CNN: Eye on South Korea in the coming days! Until then, hurrah!
TechnoKimchi is.. TechCrunch for Asia!!!
That was one of the search keywords whose results landed at TechnoKimchi. Quite interesting, right? :)
Just to let you guys know that I'm alive and well and that I'll resume blogging pretty soon.
Till then, See ya!
State of Play V: Regulating Virtual Worlds, and Changes in Education, Connecting East and West
Regulating Virtual Worlds
Legal experts explore how controversies related to intellectual property, real-money transfer, gaming as political speech, time-limit addiction laws and the policing of Internet cafes play out throughout the region. They will also draw our attention to culturally variable assumptions that underpin analytical approaches to these issues.Much of the panel discussion revolved around whether it's better to have communities self-regulate or have external forces to step in. At large, there are three forces at play: 1) community of players regulating themselves, 2) game and virtual world makers deciding what needs to happen within through creating systems certain way, 3) actual regulating bodies like the government. Many factors come into play here. Obviously, it'll be the best if all the players and communities act reasonable enough to reach certain social agreements and norms to control themselves; however, not quite so in reality. That's what makes things complicated. Besides, creating laws and regulations for a world that doesn't really exist is a very difficult task itself. For example, let's say there is a crime in Second Life. What country's law should be applied to that member? Is it for Linden Lab to decide? Or should the U.S. government intervene? What if the player was Korean?
Education, Kids, and Teens in Virtual Worlds
There has been an explosion of interest in the use of virtual worlds in education. This panel will examine what works and what doesn’t work, and will present some ideas for the effective use of online spaces for student learning. It will also ask examine how children and teens interact within virtual worlds, and what this teaches us about building kid-and-teen-friendly environments for learning and playing.This session was very interesting because I've always known there's so much learning, in a non-traditional sense, that could be done through an environment like virtual worlds. People indeed train themselves and learn a great deal in this kind of environment. They set goals for themselves, leadership becomes visible, and they collaborate with each other to solve certain problems. Some of the examples in the session were astonishing--like teaching classes in StarWars Galaxy. Now how much of this could be applied to the real world education?
Currently the real world education system is designed for a world back in 1950's. Kids are growing up enormously influenced by the digital technology. They are a lot more participatory also. The social and economic scenes are changing faster than ever due to the Internet. Unfortunately, none of this is reflected in the current one-way-teaching and text-based education system. For us to be able to adopt the opportunities given by virtual worlds and other technologies, we need a completely new mindset.
However, not everything can be learned in virtual worlds, obviously. It's our job to figure what virtual worlds can offer in this space. It seems at the moment that virtual worlds are good providing an environment in which people can come together to collaborate to solve certain problems, rather than learning specific skill sets.
Connecting East and West
Experts explore variations in playing styles, the influence of game mechanics on cross-cultural cooperation, the challenge of intercultural communication, and outcomes of forced localization. This panel will also explore issues of society, governance and virtual worlds as a vehicle for people-to-people diplomacy.Well, as you know, that's the goal of this blog. I want to let known to the world what's here in Korea and Asia and see if we can make any connections between East and West. I was actually one of the panelists during this session. But, I wasn't invited as an "official" panelist, but rather as a translator to Judge Unggi Yoon, who is a very well-respected member here. He'd explain what the MMORPGs are like in Korea and I'll translate that into English for the audience. But, hey, I was still up on the stage. What an honor! ;)
The session covered various topics ranging from the two different purposes of playing games in Lineage and Second Life, gold-farming, index for measuring the east/west-ness and etc. I really enjoyed the session while listening on the side most of the time. We definitely need to take a more analytical approach to crossing the gap. While there are fundamental differences between the two which will never get any closer than they are right now, there are also a growing number of commonalities among the two that something could be done for further development. The most important point of the session, I guess, was acknkowledging the value of the differences and how the differences indeed enrich our virtual world experiences.
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Just like every time I attend a conference, I really enjoyed meeting new people and having conversations with them. It's simply because you get to learn so much by doing so. For me, this is a completely new experience: the first time being in Singapore and first time being immersed in the virtual worlds talk.
I'm very excited for tomorrow and hopefully I'll be able to bring even more interesting stuff to you all.
These virtual worlds are crucial building blocks of global civil society. As such, they harbor the promise for relationship-building and cooperation across national borders. Solutions to the cross-cultural growing pains of this new medium require a sincere commitment to transnational dialogue.I'm flying to Singapore on Sunday to attend the State of Play Conference.
As I briefly mentioned before, in order to appropriately cover the digital generation in Asia, the gaming culture and industry, now expanded to virtual worlds altogether, must be extensively studied. Unfortunately, my expertise has been more on Web 2.0 and Enterprise IT industry in general, not so much games and virtual worlds.
But they're all coming together. I get to interact with lots of kids of age 5-15 or so at church and they live in a different world than the one I grew up in. (I'm only 28 by the way). They don't seem to draw the line between the "real" world and the "virtual" world. The two worlds are so interchangable in their lives. What's imaginary and what's physical? They don't care and they don't know, but it's all in their minds. I get to talk to people working at NCSoft and Nexon, two largest game companies in Korea, and Cyworld. AND I HEAR SOME CRAZY STORIES FROM THEM.
IBM is training their employees in Second Life. When I attended Supernova in June, there was this great session on virtual worlds and I remember Raph Koster, one of the gurus in the field, saying "many of the Web 2.0 principles and phenomenon have come from games." I totally agree with him, especially as far as how social interactions are concerned.
I go to PC bangs and see middle/high school guys in their school uniforms spend 4 hours straight playing Starcraft, Lineage, WoW, FIFA, etc. after school. What's scary is how this is such a big part of their lives. I mean their real lives.
What would happen when you combine everything together? I mean combining different virtual worlds with blogs, mobile, social networks, and messengers. Maybe some efforts towards standardization would help? What if you can play WoW on the bus for an hour using Wibro on the way to school? What if your Cyworld buddy can be found on Club Penguin? Possibilities are endless, I think.
Of course, we'll be seeing various social and legal issues come up in this fast-developing medium as well. I know much about what's up with social networks and blogs. Can the same principles be applied to virtual worlds? What's the same? What's different?
We'll find out at the conference. I'm not sure if I'll be able to live-blog the conference, given I don't know much about the wireless connections at the site. But I'll be constantly feeding you guys with what I learn there. And trust me, what I'll be learning there will be extremely important to anyone who has anything to do with anything digital--Web 2.0/portal services, H/W & gadget makers, game makers, social networks makers, book publishers, network providers, teachers, legislators, parents, kids, or even HR people.
Should I go, "stay tuned and excited" again? ;) Well, I am!
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