SEOUL -- It's a travesty, an insult to Korean dignity and further evidence of America's bid to destroy Korea. The latest war of words in the 3-month-old North Korean nuclear crisis? No, just local reaction to the new James Bond movie, "Die Another Day," whose depiction of the peninsula and its people has many North and South Koreans in rare agreement.The Koreas are not the first to decry how they are portrayed in a Bond movie, but the timing...
Non-Microsoft instant-message software users are likely to be blocked from accessing their MSN Messenger buddies beginning Oct. 15, as the U.S.-based software giant plans to upgrade the software potentially making it incompatible with other chat programs.Local media reported yesterday that local instant-message platforms - Nate, KT and Dreamwiz - might be blocked from accessing the MSN Messenger network. Microsoft plans to upgrade the MSN Messenger server software Oct. 15, and users will...
IT'S BEEN a while since William Donaldson published The Henry Root Letters - missives supposedly from a member of the public anxious to enlist noted figures to support a series of crackpot causes, and buying their loyalty with a pound note. The responses were condescending, pitying, suspicious, hostile and mostly very funny.Now that embarrassment humour is in vogue again (see Ali G, Trigger Happy TV, Dead Ringers), a new Root has appeared with The Timewaster Letters (out on...
Each week, Plugged In highlights a local electronic bulletin board.Operator: Wayne Jeong Online: 10/93 Members: 750 members Features: A bilingual board, Korean chat and E-mail, various programs in Korean, Telnet, FTP, online games, Korean tech support Specialty: Korean bilingual board Fees: vary Setup: 586 and major BBS software Philosophy: To provide a place for Koreans to get together, make friends and share ideas How to connect: (714) 449-9373 at 28.8 bps....