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PSFK Trend: PSFK (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
The other day on the phone a client of our consultancy service said to us, “The problem Starbucks created was that for every store they put up, they inspired something like 16 others to be created.” We’re not too sure about the numbers but I’m sure that if you’ve walked through your caffeine drenched neighborhood [...]
Fox News (Free subscription) | yesterday
A professional tightrope walker from China zipped along a wire strung across the Han River in just under 11 minutes to win Seoul's second international high-wire championship, which concluded Saturday.
m-trends.org (Free subscription) | yesterday
As mentioned in my previous post, last week I spent a couple of days in South Korea’s capital, Seoul, for the Digital Leaders Forum at CHEIL Worldwide HQ (view the presentation I did on Mobile Digital Storytelling). It is well-known that South Korea - together with Japan - has one of the most advanced mobile cultures [...]
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | yesterday
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- South Korean officials say they are skeptical that ailing North Korean leader Kim Jong Il actually made a public appearance as reported by Pyongyang. We cannot trust North Korean media reports 100 percent, but they could be true, an unnamed South Korean intelligence official told the Yonhap news agency Sunday. We have been monitoring reports since the announcement, but cannot...
Moldova.org (Free subscription) | yesterday
South Korean officials say they are skeptical that ailing North Korean leader Kim Jong Il actually made a public appearance as reported by Pyongyang.We cannot trust North Korean media reports 100 percent, but they could be true, an unnamed South Korean intelligence official told the Yonhap news agency Sunday. We have been monitoring reports since the announcement, but cannot confirm it.The official...
H5N1 (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
Via Reuters: S.Korea reports new case of suspected bird flu. Excerpt: South Korea on Saturday reported a suspected bird flu outbreak at a duck farm in Yesan city, south of Seoul, the first since the latest confirmed case about five...
schmoo on the run (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Authorities in Seoul have ordered Mars and Nestle to pull three products after melamine, which is usually used for making plastics, was detected in snacks made in China by the multinationals. The industrial chemical had been found in M&M's milk chocolate snack and Snickers peanut Fun Size, both produced by Mars, and Kit Kat chocolate bars imported from Nestle Tianjin in China, Korea Food and Drug Administration...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Text of report in English by South Korean news agency Yonhap Seoul, Oct. 6 (Yonhap) - South Korean health authorities said Monday that they have found traces of harmful chemicals in 10 Chinese food products that can cause kidney problems in humans during a nationwide inspection.
PSFK Trend: PSFK (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
We found these interesting Earth Plant pots in an arts store in Hongdae in Seoul. They’re made from soil, peat and glued together with wheat paste. The idea is that as your seedling sprouts and its roots outgrow the pot, you put the earth pot its in into a larger one and wait until it [...]
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Seoul - Shares nosedived Monday on the Seoul stock exchange, sending the benchmark Kospi Index down more than 4 per cent, as worries over the global financial crisis persist despite a US bailout plan. The Kospi plunged 60.90 points, or 4.3 per cent, ...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
SEOUL (Reuters) - A U.S. aircraft carrier group arrived in South Korean waters on Monday for a visit likely to upset prickly North Korea, which has said it sees such events as military provocations that undermine nuclear disarmament talks.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Germany offered a blanket bank deposit guarantee as it clinched a deal to rescue lender Hypo Real Estate, while regulators from Washington to Seoul took their own steps to ensure the stability of financial firms.
PSFK Trend: PSFK (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
We saw this in an arcade in Insa-dong in Seoul. It’s a video game where you use two turntables to play DJ. © Piers Fawkes for PSFK, 2008. | Permalink | Comments | Add to del.icio.us
Turkish Property Financing (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Thailand is considering relaxing the rules on foreign ownership of property to make it easier for non-Thais to invest there. Global Property Guide figures supplied to the Seoul Times have revealed that while prices increased by 5.... Read More... [Source: Global Real Estate & Investment News from Propertyshowrooms.com ]
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
SEOUL (Reuters) - Manchester United midfielder Park Ji-sung has been recalled to the South Korean squad for the side's World Cup qualifier against the United Arab Emirates later this month.
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mirabeau | 09/10/2008
Popping up again in Japan, the rumor that North Korea’s leader is being replaced by a double has been doing the rounds ever since the communist nation was founded. A specialist in North Korea at Waseda university in Japan and a former correspondent in Seoul for the Japanese daily Mainichi Shimbun , Japanese academic Toshimitsu Shigemura has just published a book entitled “The True Nature of Kim Jong-il”
