S. Korean Court Reinstates President Roh (AP)

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S Korean president makes apology

S Korean president makes apology 05/14/2004 11:59 PM
President Roh Moo-hyun apologises to the people after being cleared of impeachment charges and reinstated.

S.Korean President Says Unfazed by U.S.
Troop Plan

S.Korean President Says Unfazed by U.S.
Troop Plan 05/20/2004 06:56 AM
Reuters via Wired News May 20 2004 11:05AM GMT

Ecuador President Dissolves Supreme
Court (AP)

Ecuador President Dissolves Supreme
Court (AP) 04/16/2005 02:43 AM
AP - Facing growing street protests demanding his ouster, President Lucio Gutierrez declared a state of emergency Friday night in the capital and dissolved the Supreme Court in an effort to resolve an escalating political crisis.

CNN.com - Court: President cannot detain
U.S. citizen as enemy combatant

CNN.com - Court: President cannot detain
U.S. citizen as enemy combatant 12/19/2003 11:41 AM
A courageous decision .. reports .. CNN

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Vice President and his Supreme Court
Justice Buddy

Vice President and his Supreme Court
Justice Buddy 01/17/2004 10:47 PM
It's blatantly improper for Scalia and Cheney to buddy it up this way. But when Scalia says, as he's quoted in this story, "I do not think my impartiality could reasonably be questioned," he invites ridicule. Too bad, with Republican control of government, that it won't go any further.

An Appeal by 365 Korean Organizations to
the Iraqi Group Holding a Korean
National

An Appeal by 365 Korean Organizations to
the Iraqi Group Holding a Korean
National 06/21/2004 04:29 AM

Following open letter is from an OhmyNews article that encouraged wide distribution.  I don't agree with the content but I think the letter reflects the view of a small yet growing and increasingly vocal part of Korean population so here it is:

An Appeal by 365 Korean Organizations to the Iraqi Group Holding a Korean National

We appeal for the release of the Korean national Kim Seon Il.

Today the Korean people were overcome with shock at the news the Korean Kim Seon Il has been kidnapped in Iraq. His seizure and the threat against the life of this private citizen is already a source of unspeakable sadness for his family and the Korean people. This sadness and shock is the same for the many Koreans who have opposed the United States' unjust invasion and the deployment of Korean troops to Iraq.

The Korean people are well aware of the fact that the US invaded Iraq for domination and oil, and not for the freedom and peace of the Iraqi people. We know also that the US occupation of Iraq has denied the Iraqi people their sovereignty and that there have been widespread human rights abuses by US forces there, leading to Iraqi pain and loss of life. For this reason we have done all that is humanly possible to prevent the deployment of Korean troops, as they will in no way contribute to the peace and security of the Iraqi people.

The kidnapping and threatening a private citizen with death, however, will not contribute to Iraqi peace. The Iraqi people are right to resist the US's unjust invasion, occupation, and carnage. Nevertheless, kidnapping and threatening a private citizen with death cannot be justified. Doing so will only lead to a vicious cycle of blood and revenge.

Again we make an earnest appeal. Please make your claims known through dialogue and release Kim Seon Il to his family as he is of no relation to government policy.

21 June 2004

Seoul, Korea

Korean Network Against Dispatching Troops To Iraq

Uncle Sam reinstates big brother

Uncle Sam reinstates big brother 02/10/2003 10:15 PM
The FBI and state police would be able to eavesdrop on what Web sites you visit, what you search for with Google and with whom you chat through email and ...

Iran reinstates more candidates

Iran reinstates more candidates 01/23/2004 02:19 PM
The conservative Guardian Council revises its ban on a further 100 people wanting to stand for election.

Sky reinstates roulette games on iTV

Sky reinstates roulette games on iTV 07/09/2004 03:24 PM
newmediazero Jul 9 2004 8:17PM GMT

Colorado Reinstates Coach Barnett (AP)

Colorado Reinstates Coach Barnett (AP) 05/27/2004 12:32 PM
AP - The University of Colorado reinstated suspended football coach Gary Barnett on Thursday and said no one would lose their jobs because of the school's recruiting scandal.

Iraq Reinstates Capital Punishment (AP)

Iraq Reinstates Capital Punishment (AP) 08/08/2004 07:03 AM
AP - Iraq reinstated on Sunday its capital punishment law for people guilty of murder, endangering national security and distributing drugs, the government announced.

Nepal's king reinstates premier

Nepal's king reinstates premier 06/02/2004 04:03 AM
King Gyanendra reappoints Sher Bahadur Deuba, whose sacking as prime minister in 2002 led to a political crisis.

Cable and Wireless cuts pretax loss,
reinstates dividend (AFP)

Cable and Wireless cuts pretax loss,
reinstates dividend (AFP) 06/02/2004 05:30 AM
AFP - Telecommunications group Cable and Wireless said it had reduced its pre-tax loss in the year ending March 31, helped by a stronger performance at its British businesses, and reinstated a dividend.

SignOnSanDiego.com > News > State
-- Governor reverses stand on shelters,
reinstates waiting period

SignOnSanDiego.com > News > State
-- Governor reverses stand on shelters,
reinstates waiting period 06/26/2004 12:32 PM
Governor reverses stand on shelters .. reverses his position .. tells the AP .. changed

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Text of a Letter from the President to
the Speaker of the House of
Representatives and the President Pro
Tempore of the Senate

Text of a Letter from the President to
the Speaker of the House of
Representatives and the President Pro
Tempore of the Senate 03/19/2003 10:46 PM
Text of a Letter from the President to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate .. determined that

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"Text of a Letter from the President to
the Speaker of the House of
Representatives and the President Pro
Tempore of the Senate "

"Text of a Letter from the President to
the Speaker of the House of
Representatives and the President Pro
Tempore of the Senate " 03/20/2003 05:28 PM

President and Mrs. Bush's Remarks at Ask
President Bush Event with Small Business
Owners

President and Mrs. Bush's Remarks at Ask
President Bush Event with Small Business
Owners 08/20/2004 06:08 PM
"honor and dignity" president: .. in speeches .. example .. text .. said

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President Bush's Eulogy at Funeral
Service for President Reagan

President Bush's Eulogy at Funeral
Service for President Reagan 06/13/2004 06:20 PM
President Bush's Eulogy at Funeral Service for President Reagan .. George W. Bush

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Remarks by the President Upon the Death
of President Ronald Reagan

Remarks by the President Upon the Death
of President Ronald Reagan 06/06/2004 06:17 AM
Bush's description of the great president .. remarks

whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/06/20040605-7.html
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HoustonChronicle.com - Former President
Carter takes president to task

HoustonChronicle.com - Former President
Carter takes president to task 04/09/2004 11:48 PM
HoustonChronicle.com - Former President Carter takes president to task .. former PResident Carter going around criticizing the war in Iraq .. Jimmy Carter's latest eructation .. Houston Chronicle- .. And he advocates

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"Remarks by the President Upon the Death
of President Ronald Reagan"

"Remarks by the President Upon the Death
of President Ronald Reagan" 06/08/2004 08:54 AM

Barbara C. Coll Named to BtoB's Who's
Who 2004; Coll is President and
Chairperson of Search Engine Marketing
Professional Organization (SEMPO) as
well as CEO and President of WebMama.com
Inc.

Barbara C. Coll Named to BtoB's Who's
Who 2004; Coll is President and
Chairperson of Search Engine Marketing
Professional Organization (SEMPO) as
well as CEO and President of WebMama.com
Inc. 07/28/2004 04:21 AM
BtoB, the magazine for marketing strategists, has named Barbara C. Coll to its Who’s Who 2004 list. Coll is President and Chairperson of the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO) Board of Directors as well as CEO and President of WebMama.com Inc. [PRWEB Jul 28, 2004]

US court grants Guantanamo rights; says
Detainees "should have access to lawyers
and the US court system" 12/19

US court grants Guantanamo rights; says
Detainees "should have access to lawyers
and the US court system" 12/19 12/19/2003 03:47 PM
the hits just keep on coming .. full box of Kleenex: .. decision

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Viennese court passes 3G VAT refund case
onto Court of Justice

Viennese court passes 3G VAT refund case
onto Court of Justice 08/04/2004 08:05 AM
DMeurope.com Aug 4 2004 12:04PM GMT

Court mulls file sharing Hollywood and
Silicon Valley square off before Supreme
Court in case that could limit

Court mulls file sharing Hollywood and
Silicon Valley square off before Supreme
Court in case that could limit 03/30/2005 08:56 PM
CBS MarketWatch Mar 31 2005 12:31AM GMT

Court Upholds Application of Disability
Law in Court Access

Court Upholds Application of Disability
Law in Court Access 05/17/2004 07:37 PM
States that fail to make their courthouses accessible to people with disabilities can be sued for damages under federal disability law, the Supreme Court ruled today.

President Bush Welcomes President
Clinton and Senator Clinton

President Bush Welcomes President
Clinton and Senator Clinton 06/15/2004 05:02 AM
welcome the Clintons to the White House .. George W. Bush .. speech

whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/06/20040614-2.html
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"President Bush Welcomes President
Clinton and Senator Clinton..."

"President Bush Welcomes President
Clinton and Senator Clinton..." 06/16/2004 11:01 PM

"MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Chief Justice Roy
Moore was removed from office Thursday
for refusing to obey a federal court
order to move his Ten Commandments
monument from the rotunda of the state
courthouse. The Alabama Court of the
Judiciary unanimously imposed ..."

"MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Chief Justice Roy
Moore was removed from office Thursday
for refusing to obey a federal court
order to move his Ten Commandments
monument from the rotunda of the state
courthouse. The Alabama Court of the
Judiciary unanimously imposed ..." 11/14/2003 03:32 AM

Korean Archery

Korean Archery 08/22/2004 09:18 PM

South Korea's continuing dominance in archery is amazing but, like the effect of monopoly on economy, I think overdominance is starting to hurt international archery competitions.

IMHO, countries overdominating a field of sports should share it's knowhows and training programs with rest of the world, particularly with those countries that never had a chance to win an olympic medal.  For example, South Korean archery association should offer archery scholarships for amateur archers from third-world countries.  I am sure Korean companies like Samsung and LG will be glad to sponsor such scholarship programs.

Imagine the joy everyone will feel when those athletes win their countries' first olympic medal.  I also think such programs are far more rewarding than traditional international aids and foreign relation efforts.

Tigers in the Korean DMZ?

Tigers in the Korean DMZ? 09/11/2004 12:49 PM
Xeni Jardin: Snipped from Bruce Sterling's Viridian Design email newsletter, a New York Times story about wild animals reclaiming the heavily-landmined DMZ that divides North and South Korea.

[E]nvironmentalists have recognized this area one of the most enduring symbols of the cold war and one of the most fortified and heavily mined stretches on earth as the Korean peninsula's, and possibly East Asia's, most important wildlife refuge. They have been pressing to preserve it but are feeling a special urgency now because of the growing reconciliation between the North and the South. The environmentalists fear that a South Korea that puts economic development first and a North Korea that has no environmental movement could together lead to the zone's rapid destruction as a refuge. (..)

"The DMZ is the last major vestige of Korea's natural heritage," said Kim Ke Chung, a professor at the Center for BioDiversity Research at Penn State and chairman of the DMZ Forum, an organization based in the United States that is dedicated to preserving the zone. "It's probably the only good thing to come out of the Korean War and cold war. So we have to preserve this as a nature reserve." [Bruce Sterling says: "How did the Cold War become the 'cold war' all of a sudden?]

The DMZ Forum recently held a conference in Seoul to gather support for designating the zone a Unesco World Heritage Site, a classification that would curb all development. William B. Shore, secretary of the forum and a former fellow at the Regional Plan Association of New York, said the zone should become a center for eco-tourism as an alternative to turning it into a weekend getaway for residents of Seoul.

"People are now willing to pay large sums to see wild animals in the proper setting," Mr. Shore said. "Eco-tourism would protect the DMZ from becoming the Hamptons of South Korea." [Bruce Sterling says: "Perhaps it's possible to transform the Hamptons into a DMZ."]

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Korean Bloggers

Korean Bloggers 06/05/2005 11:34 PM
Thanks to Jin Ho, Heewon, Goo Dong-Eon, Xenix, Qho, Young Wook, and BK for a very interesting dinner discussion and explaining the Korean blogging scene to me.

Korea is reported by the OECD to have the highest high-speed Internet penetration of any nation. Korea has an extremely vibrant gaming, blogging, mobile phone and youth culture scene and I was eager to find out more about what was going on. I scribbled a bunch of notes over coffee during the day and over dinner. Please excuse any errors since I have not been able to fact check everything. If you could point them out and let me update them, I would appreciate it.

According to articles in the press, there are 5-6 million blogs. These are not to be confused with hompy. Hompy (a derivative of home page) are personal home pages with photo albums, guest books, avatars, background skins, and background music. There are approximately 10 million hompy pages. In a city with a population of 10 million and a country with a population of 45 million, that's quite impressive. Companies seem to be making money selling background music and items for hompy pages. Most of the posts are focused on photos and one line comments on pages of friends. They are generally closed communities and are focused more on real-time presence-like communication rather than diary or dialog.

Cyworld, which sounded like the leader for hompys has a feature they call "scratch scrap". This allows you to copy/paste content from other web pages easily to your hompy. On of the problems that I see with this is that this simple built-in feature does not provide a link back to the original source. It is rumored engineers who designed this left and joined Naver, one of the leading blog companies and created a similar feature for them. Generally speaking, it sounded like people don't link very much. They are still mostly plain html and not css + xhtml. There seemed to be some trackback implementation, but it is not yet as widely used as in the US or Japan. As far as I could tell, none of the blog systems used any of the standard APIs, and some had RSS feeds. Blogs and hompys don't seem to be pinging any pinger sites, which makes them nearly invisible to the outside world. In addition, many sites block search engine bots from crawling hompys and blogs.

It appears that one of the biggest problems is that there are several 800 pound gorilla type portals that remind me of AOL during it's powerful years. They try to create walled gardens of users. With millions of bloggers and hompy users in each community, they are focused more on integrating inside of their portals than open standards or linking across portals. There are some independent blog services and aggregators, but they still seem to be focused on community and somewhat inward facing networks. A not-so-visibile majority of blogs in Japan and the US are also this way, but the public facing citizen journalist or pundit-style blogs seem to be very sparse in Korea.

One of the reasons might be due to the success of OhmyNews. I visited OhmyNews as well, and they are truly an online newspaper powerhouse. You can read about them in detail in Dan Gillmor's We the Media, but they are a edited news website with droves of citizen journalists who submit articles. They have courses in writing for the citizen journalists, tip jars that people can pay them through, editors to help with the important stories, lots of influence and visibility and offline community activities. I can imagine that someone who had something political or pundit-like to say might easily choose to write for OhmyNews than to start a blog. This doesn't describe everything, but I'm sure that OhmyNews has attracted a fair number of the potential media blogger types.

I still have a lot to learn but the incredible difference in the blogging scene and the apparent happiness with what the people had considering the widespread adoption made me wonder if the Korean blogs would ever look like American or Japanese blogs. (Many aspects of the Japanese blogging scene seem to be following in the footsteps of the US blogging scene, albeit with some differences.)

Update:

4- jaz @ June 2, 2005 10:43 AM

hey joi. the function is called "scrap," not "scratch"
what it allows you to do is to display a particular post from someone's mini-hompy (cyworld) - if the permission setting of that post is set to "allow scrap" - not from just any website. there's a watermark-like feature that goes with it, which displays the original author's name and the link back to the origianl mini-hompy.

Sorry about the error. I was told however, that most bloggers and hompyiers didn't cite or link. Someone said that the big portals encouraged because it allowed all of the content to be searched inside the portal, rather than offsite. Does anyone have any more information on this?

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Korean Slavery

Korean Slavery 05/04/2004 04:47 PM
Korean Slavery - Mark A. Peterson [pdf]

Gov't considering redenomination of
Korean won

Gov't considering redenomination of
Korean won 09/16/2004 11:32 AM
Maekyung Internet Sep 16 2004 3:15PM GMT

Symmetricom Supports Korean 3G

Symmetricom Supports Korean 3G 08/17/2004 11:06 AM
Unstrung.com Aug 17 2004 3:48PM GMT

Korean Google Blog

Korean Google Blog 10/03/2002 01:42 PM
Seok Wan Yang is tracking Google in Korean. I don't speak Korean, but it looks helpful....

Korean Robots to Help War in Iraq

Korean Robots to Help War in Iraq 05/11/2004 05:14 AM
Hankooki May 11 2004 9:22AM GMT

Korean General Elections

Korean General Elections 04/15/2004 09:09 PM

As expected, pro-government Uri Party got 152 seats out of 299, which gives them the majority.  Han-nara (Grand National) Party lost its majority position but still managed to eek out a respectable showing, thanks to the daughter of a former dictator who took control of the party just weeks before the election.  It's funny how conservatives prefer the nostalgic certainty of iron-clad rule by dictators over euphoric optimism of liberals.  Min-noh (Democratic Labor) Party emerged in the third place, making the ultra-liberal pro-labor party a political force to be reckoned with.

National Assembly seats after ballot counting[As of 1:00 a.m.]

Party	Before	Now
Uri Party	49	152
Grand National Party	137	121
Millennium Democratic Party	61	9
Democratic Labor Party	0	10
United Liberal Democrats	10	4
Others	14	3

Korean Bipedal Robot Kit

Korean Bipedal Robot Kit 07/09/2004 05:09 PM

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