Daejeon ─ The number of startups is showing how much a country’s economy is dynamic. From the beginning of 21st century, millions of idea-based companies newly born and gone at Silicon Valley. Venture capitalist and angel investors supported those business models. During last decade, the world had faced […]
Move over, LTE. 5G is coming. It’s an understatement to say that smartphones are everywhere in Korea. As a fellow blogger noted in 3 Funny Things about K-Dramas, even the poorest character would have the latest smartphone. It’s not that unrealistic actually, with Korea boasting a 97.7% saturation […]
According to the Canadian Tourism Commission, Canada welcomed approximately 137,300 overnight travelers from South Korea in 2012. These visitors injected $234 million in Canada’s tourism economy. Besides the sub-zero temperatures during winter and the occasional deer or moose on the highway at night, Koreans visiting the second largest […]
The first time I heard about KakaoTalk was from a friend who had just returned from teaching English in Korea. He mentioned being “Kakaoed” and “Kakaoing” people. I had absolutely no idea what he was talking about so I finally decided to inquire about this odd new verb: […]
