Illegal Nintendo goods undermine DS release
Nintendo Korea is taking losses because of illegal games being smuggled in from China. Since Nintendo established a local office in Korea in January 2006 and released a local version […]
Category Archives: being digital
About cyberspace, games, digital life, Second Life, etc.
Hillary Clinton in Second Life
Writing an article about the differences between the political usage of Internet in Korea and America, I used Hillary Clinton’s island on Second Life as an example of how candidates […]
Brain Games are latest fad for IQ set
This is not a game, it’s brain-training. Forget getting to the highest level in the latest release of Counter-Strike, in intelligence-obsessed Korea, so-called “brain-training” games are the latest fad. The […]
Korean regulations check Web politics
Korea’s online political campaign scene is quite restrictive compared to what is going on in the United States during the run-up to next year’s American presidential elections. While the two […]
Role of Internet expands for 2007 Korean presidential race
The Internet is going to play a bigger role in Korea’s December presidential elections. Candidates are using the Internet to muster support, and members of the National Election Commission’s broadcasting […]
Seoul pushes bar codes to track online content
The government will introduce a bar code system for digital content to enhance copyright protection. The Information Ministry said yesterday that it plans to promote a system to the public […]
Blizzard has to fight censors before beginning its crusade
Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft: the Burning Crusade was finally released last Friday. More commonly known as the “WoW expansion pack,” the game was originally scheduled to begin open service […]
Leopard is in! (both online and offline)
Thinking that animal prints will continue to be popular, I designed a leopard print dress in Second Life for my character. It comes with prim sleeves and an assymetrical flexi skirt […]
D. Yvette Wohn 