Is Korea an IT powerhouse in real terms?The phrase "IT powerhouse Korea" has been often used in the media as well as in daily conversations. At the same time, we are also aware that some are skeptical of using the phrase. Many online comments say that "Korea is a telecommunications infrastructure powerhouse, not an IT powerhouse. If so, we'd better pay due attention to the reasons why some refus

As the separation of the division between the North and South Korea is becoming more firm, the everyday language and even the technical languages are becoming more different every day. Language is important in suggesting actions, so it is important to organize a unification of languages between the people of North and South Korea. Especially the rapidly changing IT language which is very different

Traditional Healthcare means Hospital Healthcare, which is near-place healthcare to in-person patients. That is, the Healthcare was and is confined to spatiotemporal boundaries. Pain is Guilty?Care at a distance, or in-absentia care, was conducted via post. Thanks to telecommunication technologies, Telemedicine (maybe in a narrow sense) has extended healthcare to far-place patients and has been

Internet access in schools, whether at the secondary or graduate level, has become a necessity. Unfortunately, there are several problems that come with it. How a student deals with these will depend on his or her school but there is no place in schools for draconian methods. And since total trust has also become something of the past, students and professors alike require a modicum of protection.

Despite economic sanctions, including Western countries' ban on exports of advanced technology, North Korea is regarded as being equipped with independent technology power in the science technology sector as shown in its launch of intercontinental ballistic missile. However, North Korea has been shrouded in mystery in terms of software technology level.Chosun Computer Center, a software developm

The presidential council for G20 planning and coordination was reformed and expanded to emerge as the G20 Summit Preparation Committee. And each Ministry's G20-related taskforces were integrated to assist the G20 Summit Preparation Committee in making full-scale preparations for the upcoming big event.The G20 Seoul Summit will revolve around post-crisis global economic management and ways to lay

Desirable directions for Korea's Green ICTThe Korea Communications Commission (KCC) says S. Korea's green Information and Communication Technology (ICT) should take the forms of all of the following: Green of ICT, Green by ICT and the technological convergence of broadcasting and communications.First, Green of ICT means vastly cutting back on greenhouse gas emissions in the broadcasting and co

   Each Apple gadget has had its own respective selling point, necessitating itself in the lives of the American consumer and making (sometimes empty) promises of fulfillment, efficiency, and happiness. The pioneering 1976 Apple I Computer Kit bragged of being hand built by the designer and offering a circuit board (keyboard and television set monitor not included).Not to be outdone, the A

Today there are only a few who still argue that the nation should spend as much for medical care as is technically possible, regardless of costs and benefits. Acceptance of the relevance of economics to health care policy has grown so rapidly that for some audiences it is necessary to add a few words of warning against uncritical application of general economic principles with insufficient attenti

These days hearing (& being) environmentally friendly is very common; rather I should say they are the buzz words. And don't get surprised when you are reading this write up that it is not related to the environment or for that matter to the irrigation systems. On top of that it is not even related to my core field and not even to the day to day activities, but it is very much related to YOU - yes

A number of Hollywood science-fiction films have shown the possibility that in the future; we will live in a society with remotely controlled androids. In Surrogates, humans have yielded to their virtual-reality-enabled recliners, as their robots substitute for them in the real world. Also in Avatar, the military clones biological hosts to work on an exotic world filled with unobtanium, a valuable

Peter Beck, researcher of The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center of Stanford University, once stated that, "For North Korea's income level to reach 80 percent of South Korea's, it will cost from US$2 trillion to US$5 trillion of unification costs for the next 30 years." If South Korans were to pay for the costs, each person would have to pay at least US$40 thousand. In order to pre

What is you're oldest memory?A few days ago, there was a television program about a middle-aged man who is famous for his highest IQ index. Whenever I see people with higher IQ indices, one of the common things differentiating them from ordinary people is the memory capability. The middle-aged man on the TV insisted that he still remembered the moment of his birth. How many people remember the m

Two highly-anticipated, location-based games for the iPhone were launched last March. Foursquare is similar to the popular Dodgeball, which Google bought in 2005 (though it was shut down very recently), and it has been gaining a reputation domestically in the United States. The other is Gowalla, which was created by Alamofire, and this, conversely, has been gaining international users in a quick p

As a teenager, we are often asked what we want to be when we grow up. There is the traditional response of becoming the President or a politician, but nowadays, a good majority want to become a businessman or businesswoman. This winter, I was lucky enough to interview a prominent person with intellectual knowledge in business and economics - Professor Chang Sea-jin. Today, Professor Chang is the P

Korea is an understated country. Maybe that is the reason why one of Asia's most active research and development clusters nestled away in Daedeok Valley has not received the attention internationally of a Silicon Valley. Perhaps the researchers here are simply too busy doing their research in the Korean workaholic style to step back and think about how to publicize their abroad. Or perhaps Koreans

The twentieth century has brought some dramatic changes to our lives. We especially know that the cellular phone has revolutionized our daily lives. However, as we progress into the twenty-first century, the functions of the cellular phone have compiled to the point in which the influx of information merely confounds the older generations. Back in the 1970s and 1980s, the vast majority of cellular

Since Aug. 15 when President Lee Myung-bak declared an era of green - an era of low carbon and green growth - green growth policy has been adopted as the nation's first priority.Although Korea was developed into the world's 13th economic superpower, it is the world's 10th greenhouse gas emission country. Over the past years, the state information has been propelled to tide over the limit of indu

There is no doubt that technology has revolutionized the twentieth century. In fact automobiles, telephones, and computers gained their prominence in that era. Such innovation has brought convenience to transportation, communication, and commerce in our society. Many people, however, contend that technology hasn't much changed our lives in the early twenty first century. It is possible is that it'

While reviewing the settlement of Jamestown for my imminent American History test in the St. Mark’s library, I received an unexpected phone call from my mother in Korea. A mother who by now could be walking in Seoul with an iPod, with no choice but to hear the 1000 songs her son downloaded onto her MP3 player. A woman who says she is so happy that she bought an MP3 player that allows her some sort