Mar 9, 2009

Korea Univ have launched their own islands in SL





What a glitz and glitter day that one of the finest university in S. Korea have their presense in Secondlife to educate student in Virtual World.

AKA Virtual KU(korea Univ) campuse in SL was developed by korean community, Sera Korea sponsored by T-entertainment company and they would started their virtual class from 2nd March.
Oh damn i just missed their class in SL... lol

However, the island of KU is simply well made and mocked up their real site. So any one from various countries could experience the Korea Univ, virtually
That's the delightful way to exposure their name and let students come and know how Korea Univ looks like :-)

The representative from sera korea, Mr park announced to public that they will keep add more educational service on the site and establish the intergrated educational solution. i am so expecting with those.
In addition, Korea University will extend the technology to students in Second Life, by creating interactive video lecture that help students grasp tough and tedious class.

Mar 2, 2009

Get L$100 as participating in survey!



Get L$100 as participating in survey!

UX Lab of the Seoul Women’s University is currently working on survey for impressions on 3D virtual space.
When you completely fill out the survey forms, we will provide you L$100 for each and every participant.

1. Website for survey : http://swuux.cafe24.com
2. How to enroll your account on website.
- You have to make an entry with same account names using in SL.
3. Notabene : L$100 will be claimed properly when participant’s both accounts are matched between SL and survey site.

A term of survey (SLT)
1st 22nd ~ 26th Feb
2nd 1st ~ 5th Mar
3rd 8th ~ 12th Mar
4th 15th ~ 19th Mar

A closing of survey (SLT)
1st 7pm, 26th, Feb, Thursday
2nd 7pm, 6th, Mar, Thursday
3rd 7pm, 12th, Mar, Thursday
4th 7pm,19th Mar, Thursday



4. Payday
Each Friday of every weeks.
( L$100 will be provided to every participant on each Friday of every weeks. We will add a name to a list in http://blog.naver.com/swuux at 7pm each Friday.(SLT)

Attentions (a escape clause)
We won’t pay L$ 100 in case of …
When you fill out the survey forms by dishonesty such as submitted either continual or same numbers.
When You didn’t fill out the forms completely.
When We can’t match and find out your account properly due to the wrong submitted name.

Oct 9, 2008

MCST budets for Virtual World until 2012

MCST ( Ministry of Culture, Sprots and Tourism Republic of Korea) announced that they are going to foster Virtual World Platforms and Contents as strategic industries on 8th Oct.

well it's just hard to wrap up the whole range of their announcements. however, i will try.

There are 5 field specified for this issue.
CG (Computer Graphic) industry, Digital Virtual World, Convergenced contents of Broadcasts and networks, ubiquitous education contents and Virtual Contents will be fostered until 2012 with investing 650 billion won ( about 500 million dollars in us$).

Because they expect that the market with those industries aggregate US$ 5 billion in 2012. At the same time, much of the money is being spent on education, tourism, traing and new economic sectors meant to enhance international competitiveness and create new 130k jobs in Korea.

Moreover if i focus on part of the Virtual world plan, they have couple of plan developing 4 more gates including Sungnyemun(" Gate of Exalted Ceremonies" ), Virtual Tour contents and Virtual Government service etc.
Even a private organization will be included for create new virtual service sector.
An estimated cost will be 30 billion won ( us$ 22 millions ) .

You can read and download the article in here

Sep 24, 2008

Acid Mall Promotional Video



One of Acid mall's manager, Hcho Jun had made this promotional video for casual .
That is nice work with music "A Thousand mile" by Vanessa Carlton.

I am sure that you can get more of fashion stuffs when you come by.

SLURL : http://slurl.com/secondlife/Korean%20Town%202/149/94/22

You also can see the features of Acid mall via Blog
Plz visit http://acidmall.wordpress.com

a Talented manager of Acidmall have updated features every single day.

Sep 23, 2008

The day with SUNGNYEMUN


The day with SUNGNYEMUN, originally uploaded by okiroo.

The day with SUNGNYEMUN


in the middle of leisure day, I sat on floor of park in front of Sungnyemun(" Gate of Exalted Ceremonies" )




slurl.com/secondlife/Korean Town 2/134/106/24

How to add fShare

source: Flux

Sep 20, 2008

SL Business Needs Reproduction in case of S. Korea.

After Cyworld had released their new 3D service, Minilife, Korea also have been rised attention to 3D space service. Infact, 3D virtual world craze had already swept the world wide last year. The Second Life that represents Virtual World, had numerous global companies made thieir own presence. Even a couple of them make great business across the Second Life.

Well I think that the reason why the 3D virtual worlds brought sizzle to the world then come into the spotlight as one of the next generation technology, because, 3D Virtual Worlds are more exellent than traditional web in case of information publishing and we can carry out the economic, cultural and educational activities with making with user generating contents. That means already many informations had accumulated on virtual area based on web, then that the suitable way that we can produce it more efficiently is 3D virtual world, Second Life.
Therefore Second Life's most uniq factor is rather data we make sense, efficient communication and virtual economy system which is available to change virtual currency to real currence than brilliant 3d graphic stuffs.

Ofcourse in a stance of client or enterpreneurs, they need to concern about practical application rather than theory due to the needs of tangible achievemen. But when introduction of new tech, it is often concerned as trend not tech. that's why catching a changes of technology is so important. There are frequent occasions that we can't take a Tech as ours easilly, when someone use the tech. because, it is usually reproduced as suitable tools according to the certain circumstances.

In the event of google, who brought sizzled to the world, take a possession of 5% in the korea domestic internet market.
and even a Ipod of apple swept off the world MP3 maket, 70%, only share the 15% in korea domestic maket.

Because Korea domestic market show their difference with global there are needs of reproducing new tech. I hope that we can see the various company bring up the new market after they discovered the pratical trend in case of leading industry uses such as Second Life.