Category Archives: Primers

“How can you use a Mac in Korea?” To those of you who don’t live in Korea, this might sound like a rather odd question. But with this country’s well-documented Microsoft monoculture it’s a legitimate one. When, in typical fanboy fashion, I lift the lid on my Macbook Pro or Air at a business meeting or… Continue Reading

Welcome to the first in a new, on-going series we fondly called,  ”CLONE SPOTTING“, the original series … about copies.   =P By “copies” or “clones”, we are referring to the ever growing list of businesses, brands, concepts, app, ideas that are re-purposed, redesigned and rehashed for the Korean market — and vice versa.  … Continue Reading

Next week the New York Times will set the final stones in its labyrinthine and over-priced paywall. While newspapers in the West (i.e. Wall Street Journal and Financial Times) increasingly adopt this pay-to-read model, it has not caught on in Korea and, in my view, is not likely to catch on anytime soon. Here are… Continue Reading

I’d wager that most tech-savvy people around the world are familiar with China’s great firewall – the nationwide net-nanny system that controls what Chinese internet users can and cannot access online – but fewer people know that South Korea also restricts access to some websites. That’s right, South Korea, free and democratic for more than… Continue Reading