News Roundup

2009/06/25 10:17

Minerva recently decided to start writing and blogging again after his recent decision to move to the US to study economics. Park Dae-sung also seems to be set to stop using  Daum’s blogging service:

Professor Jin Joong-kwon of ChungAng University initiated the exodus to the cyber asylum as he shifted from Daum to Blogspot, a Google service whose servers are located in the United States.

After Jin was accused of defaming a conservative political commentator, Daum suspended several of the articles in question. Then the Internet gladiator announced he would leave Daum earlier this month.

Nexon announced a deal to bring two of their online games to Russia:

Nexon Corp., the leading Korean online game maker, has signed a contract to export the popular "Crazy Arcade B&B" and "Crazy Racing Kartrider" to Innova Systems, one of the major game distributors in Russia and 11 other members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

Korean prosecutors decided to give a reprieve to thousands of teenagers caught for copyright infringement charges over pirated music files:

The prosecution decided to be lenient with people under the age of 19 to reduce the number of teenagers with criminal records since most of them were found to have been unaware of the consequences of downloading and sharing copyrighted songs. First-time offenders are to be let off.