News Roundup
2007/12/07 19:18First, a Reuters article on the popularity of peer to peer services in Korea for watching the latest television shows from Korea and abroad:
User-generated content sites such as "ipop" have clubs where users can pay by the download or pony up monthly subscription fees of about 10,000 won to 20,000 won ($11 to $22) that will let them tap into a huge library of U.S., Japanese, Chinese, and Korean TV programming and movies.
One of the most popular peer-to-peer clubs, Mansal, has had nearly 50 million visitors. While many are repeats, the total is still almost equal to the country's population.
DaKoreaITDaily has an article on Posbro teaming up with a local game developer to release multiplayer games for their handheld gaming device:
Accordingly, the two companies are going to develop three web board games such as Go-stop, Poker and High-Low operated by Freechal into new games that can be enjoyed at WiBro terminal and PC until Posbro release WiBro game players.
In addition, Posbro and Freechal will strategically cooperate with each other to provide various services such as multi-media contents including movie clip, UCC and music and education contents through the WiBro terminal.
The government operated Korea.Net has an article on a new sensor network that will be deployed in Incheon:
Injecting 650 million won, the Incheon Metropolitan Government will install sensors on streetlights and monitors in each household in a test district so people can keep track of young children and elderly relatives.
For the system to work, the youth and aged need to carry a radio frequency identification tag.
Also, TU Media has received permissions from the Korean regulators to rebroadcast the terrestrial MBC television channel on their satellite DMB network.
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