All text below was lifted from here for convenience; go over and read the comments if you’re interested.  I will just say right now that I haven’t done any research on this but thought that it might be interesting to pass this along to the k-blogger community … Here’s an article about the situation. Misc. [...]

Anyone remember playing duckhunt on your NES?  This screenshot I took from a recent North Korean news broadcast on April 3 shows some North Korean kids using what looks like the same gun.  I want to say it’s a NES, but the game cartridges look like they’re put in the top of the console so [...]

Source: Physorg Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) seem to have created a new type of electric bus called the Online Electric Vehicle (OLEV).  Instead of the trolleys you normally see in places like Vancouver or San Francisco, its powered by charging wirelessly through the ground using magnetic charging strips [...]

There’s some software created for SNU students to plan out their courses for the semester.  I found a nice little tutorial in English about how to use it (see it here).  It’s cool that the tutorial is out there, but what about the fact that when I install SNUTime on Windows which isn’t the Korean [...]

Source: Chosun Have you seen those mysterious covered boxes for the past (at least) two months?  They said they would debut in February and they finally have.  The “Digital View” terminals are internet phones (free to use) with subway, store and tourist information.  I have to say, they’re cool but not what I need/want.  Who [...]