Tag: KOREA

Given his stellar filmography, it's safe to assume that Park Chan-wook's next movie will be just as viscerally powerful as 'Oldboy,' 'Sympathy for Lady Vengeance,' or 'Thirst.' Unlike the Korean director's previous works, though, his most recent project was shot with a distinctly unique cinematic medium: the iPhone. Titled 'Paranmanjang,' Park's new, 30-minute horror film was shot on a budget ...

Already under fire from privacy advocates and politicians in the U.S., Google is now facing a probe from the South Korean government, amid speculation that the company may have illegally collected private information from Korean users. As Reuters reports, police raided Google Korea's Seoul offices yesterday, as part of an ongoing investigation into the company's Street View service. After more ...

Kudos to LG Electronics for creating the Most Obvious Product That No One's Ever Made. With all these new-fangled concepts coming out for solar-powered cellphone chargers and drink coasters and what-have-you, it makes the most sense to craft an eco-friendly device that performs the best in high-sun seasons and whose traditional counterparts are electrical siphons of the worst sort. We present to ...

North Korea is a nation as secretive as it is controlling of its population. The extent of the government's influence even encompasses the populace's access to the Internet, but as with most of the country, it has rarely been glimpsed (though outsiders got a rather disheartening look at a paltry OS made by Dear Leader). A recent BBC News report, however, has shed some light on the dire state of ...

Where would we be without hangovers? Aspirin sales would be lower, worker productivity on Monday mornings would be higher, and the cinematic masterpiece 'The Hangover' would be a predictable documentary about a bachelor party in Vegas. This, dear readers, is the future if extra-oxygenated Korean booze catches on worldwide. It's the result of research by Kwang-il Kwon and Hye Gwang Jeong at ...

The story is always the same. You wake up the morning after a rough night, head pounding, eyes bloodshot, mouth parched. You're in need of some early morning sustenance to start the recovery process, but it would take a Herculean effort to move your big toe -- let alone to interact with the near-stranger snoring away next to you. Well, now your Sunday morning breakfast woes are over, thanks to ...

They're not much more useful or cost efficient than a second or third regular-sized display, but Korean company Nanovision's soon-to-be-released 7-inch mini-LCDs -- model-named MIMO -- are novel, and probably a bit more convenient to hook up thanks to a USB interface. Two models will hit the streets of Korea in just a couple of days, and they both work in either landscape or portrait mode at ...

When the earth warms and the forests turn to dust, at least the robots will remain to re-oxygenate the Earth. The Chonnam National University developed robotic plant (pictured above holding a human child puppet) from Korea stands over four-feet tall; consists of a pot, stem, and five meat-eating buds; and emits oxygen, moisture, and even an aroma of human effluence, we presume. As people ...

LG's new LG-SH240 slider, recently released in Korea, is a pretty standard mobile phone with a 2-megapixel camera, HSDPA 3G connectivity (for fast downloads and Web surfing) and Bluetooth (for wireles headsets and speakers). The phone's main attraction? It comes with a keyboard designed to feel like human skin. Yes, the next advancement in touch-based technology appears to be mimicking the ...

Word out of Asia is that the LG KH1600 is the new must-have phone for the jet set...set. You can use the thing in over 120 countries, including previously tough-to-use-your-cell-phone-in Japan (who know there were so many countries out there?!), thanks to its WCDMA system (which is like 3G, with really good social skills and lots of frequent flyer miles). So far, all Akihabara News knows ...