Dan's Blog (2.0) » Korea http://www.torgo.com/blog Musings on technology, the Web, mobility and beyond Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:39:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Famous in Korea! http://www.torgo.com/blog/2008/03/famous-in-korea.html http://www.torgo.com/blog/2008/03/famous-in-korea.html#comments Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:45:21 +0000 Daniel Appelquist http://www.torgo.com/blog/2008/03/famous-in-korea.html François Daoust of W3C and I were interviewed by the Korean press about the work of the W3C Mobile Web Best Practices working group.  Unfortunately,  the article hasn’t been translated so I have no idea what they said about us, but hey — any publicity is good publicity, I suppose.

]]> http://www.torgo.com/blog/2008/03/famous-in-korea.html/feed 1 Why am I Going to Korea? http://www.torgo.com/blog/2008/03/why-am-i-going-to-korea.html http://www.torgo.com/blog/2008/03/why-am-i-going-to-korea.html#comments Sun, 02 Mar 2008 02:06:31 +0000 Daniel Appelquist http://www.torgo.com/blog/2008/03/why-am-i-going-to-korea.html Picture out the window of the Korean Airlines Lounge in Narita AirportI’m sitting in the Korean Airlines lounge in Narita (Tokyo) airport after an 11 hour flight from London, watching a seemingly endless succession of JAL 747s taking off. When I arrived, there were no promised uniformed agents showing me the way. All the doors marked “international connections” were closed. In the end, I had to find my way through a very forbidding looking corridor and I was sure I was going to be turned back and possibly detained, but the airport staff I eventually found were very helpful and guided me to the checkpoint I needed for my connection. So, here I sit, stealing WiFi from the Northwest lounge next door.

In an hour I’ll be on another flight on my way to Seoul, South Korea. I don’t speak a word of Korean, I have no local currency and I’ve most likely packed the wrong plug adapters. But on Monday morning, I will convene the next face to face meeting of the W3C Mobile Web Best Practices working group. After that, I plan to participate in an event called W3C Mobile Wednesday, a kind of east-meets-west open conference-style event bringing together people working in mobile Web standardization and those working on the sharp end of the mobile Web in Korea: people from manufacturers and operators, yes, but also entrepreneuers, bloggers, developers. It’s all thanks to the Korean Mobile Web 2.0 Forum, ETRI, and the people at the W3C offfice in Korea. I’m very excited about this event and this whole week. Besides making some real progress on the work of the Mobile Web Best Practices group, I hope to get a real flavor for how the mobile Web (and other digital services) are being delivered in Korea, a place that showcases (according to Jim O’Reilly and Tomi Ahonen in their book Digital Korea) the “Convergence of Broadband Internet, 3G Cell Phones, Multiplayer Gaming, Digital TV, Virtual Reality, Electronic Cash, Telematics, Robotics, E-Government and the Intelligent Home”.
That and enjoy some good kimchi.

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