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My Money is Mine: Korean Bank Security

This month on The Korea Blog, I’m taking a look at technology in Korea. I mean, who doesn’t love technology and all the things it’s bringing us? For this first…

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TV or Internet? Which One is Better?

A few days ago, a good friend of mine posted this on Facebook: I thought it a great question, so I answered it. What about you? What are your answers?

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Crazy Fast LTE Speed

Believe it or not, I’ve been using the Internet since it’s inception… well at least when it was made public. I recall fondly the days of using ARCHIE and GOPHER…

Tesco’s HomePlus Virtual Store in Korea

A long running joke between Carl Kwan and I on 1013 Mainstreet revolves around shopping. The joke started with a tweet from Carl during one of my on-air segments when…

The Seoul Podcast

This past week, I took some time out to record the Seoul Podcast. Check it out! LINK

Not that impressive…

I was going through the news yesterday and saw a news story that made me laugh. It tells of a major “new” advancement in cell phone technology: two cameras on…

Shutter Cal

Just before the start of 2010, a friend on YouTube (Raoul), sent Jo and I a message via FaceBook inviting us to partake in a challenge. To take a picture…

New, New Digs: Redux

Over the past week, Jo has been making the rounds at various stores, looking for what is needed to make this OfficeTel a home. Her favorite site (and mine as…

Talk about slow…

From Slashdot: “The results are in: it’s faster to send your data via an airborne carrier than it is through the pipes. As discussed Tuesday, a company in South Africa…

How fast is your net????

I recently saw an article stating that the US was 15 years behind South Korea with regards to its Internet speed and infrastructure. ARTICLE This got me thinking about my…

Great friends

There can’t be enough said about the value of having a good friend(s). This is especially true when living abroad. One of the things I find most interesting here in…

The Unlimited Cap

For the past few months, TimeWarner Internet services have been playing with the idea that they should introduce tiered services. Essentially, you pick how much of the Internet you want…