Busan, Sapporo sign MoU on film collaboration - Screendaily.com (subscription) The Korean city of Busan and Japanese city Sapporo have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate... R. Richard Hobbs | nyc.locationscout.us Weblog - Podcasts powered by Odiogo Less

Pusan festival assesses Hollywood - Variety Hollywood’s dominance of global cinema screens came in for plenty of bashing Saturday at the first running of the Asia Film Policy Forum. But... R. Richard Hobbs | nyc.locationscout.us Weblog - Podcasts powered by Odiogo Less

Film commission seminar urges more incentives - Hollywood Reporter Oct 4, 2008 | … expert Bill Bowling's advice Saturday to a gathering of film commission representatives... R. Richard Hobbs | nyc.locationscout.us Weblog - Podcasts powered by Odiogo Less

Global Innovation, intellectual property, Invention Gregory T. Huang wrote: When I visited Nathan Myhrvold in the summertime, he lamented that he wasn’t able to attend the Olympics in Beijing (though he did provide some insight into the physics of ping-pong matches). But this week and next, Myhrvold is taking a grander tour of Asia, as his Bellevue, WA-based invention company, Intellectual Ventures, opens a series of new offices in the region. It is the firm’s first major foray into the global market, with the goal being to amplify its focus on investing in technological invention as a key commodity and driver of innovation. To that end, Myhrvold (an Xconomist) and Edward Jung, the founders of Intellectual Ventures, are in the midst of hosting office launches and events this month in five Asian countries. The company’s new regional headquarters is in Singapore, with additional offices located in Tokyo, Japan; Bangalore, India; Beijing, China; and Seoul, South Korea. Each office will be staffed by roughly seven to 10 people. “I am struck by the gap between Asia’s collective, innovative talent and the lack of resources for Asia’s greatest inventors. IV is working to fill this gap,” said Jung in a statement. So what exactly will Intellectual Ventures be doing there? As Myhrvold told me previously, “Most inventing organizations like universities and nonprofits have a tech transfer office or a technology licensing office. Most institutions in Asia don’t.” Intellectual Ventures, he said, wants to “be an outsourced tech transfer agent for inventing institutions that don’t have one. We can provide the same functionality that you’d get from a technology licensing office. We evaluate ideas, we pay for them to be patented, we provide a little bit of funding for them, and then we license them. There’s no reason that smart people in Asia shouldn’t be able to get the same traction that Stanford provides.” Comments | Permalink | Share |  E-mail Less

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Production update: Korea - Variety The most aggressive region in Korea is Gyeonggi Province through its Gyeonggi Digital Contents Agency, launched in 2004, and the Gyeonggi Film Commission in 2005.... R. Richard Hobbs | nyc.locationscout.us | New York City area film location scout, film location manager, film location library, location and production services for film, photo, video and tv. Click here to play Less

From left to right: Chester Roh, Chang Kim, and author Joyce Kim. Photo by Joyce Kim. Google has acquired South Korea’s TNC, maker of the open-source blogging and publishing platform Textcube, co-CEO Chang Kim said on his personal blog today. I met with the TNC team back in March, when I was visiting Seoul. I liked the company so much that I talked about it on an episode of The GigaOM Show and wrote about Textcube on my own blog. Everything I saw during the demo TNC gave made me want to move my own blog onto Textcube. I was impressed not only with how easy it was to add photos, videos and podcasts, but with the incredible drag-and-drop feature, which made it very easy to upload images in bulk, create slide shows, resize images and format text around the media object. TNC had also recently restructured its commenting system to resemble an email inbox, a format whose familiarity will undoubtedly prove more accessible to bloggers and readers alike. And its default analytics system offers Google Analytics-like information and results without the hassle of installing plug-ins. Overall, TNC is a great product to bridge the gap between first-time bloggers, who want maximum simplicity, and professional bloggers, who want to customize every last detail. And as blogging becomes more prevalent, this mid-market may emerge as the biggest of the three. The TNC team previously built a blogging community site called tistory, which is similar to Xanga and quickly became one of Korea’s top 10 web sites. Tistory was subsequently acquired by Daum, while the founders continued developing the open-source software platform as a software-as-service business that became TNC. Co-CEO Chang Kim is major evangelist and blogger in the Asian Web 2.0 scene, while founder Chester Roh is a famous former hacker and a graduate of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, whose alum have created a significant number of the top Korean tech companies and services. Strategically, this acquisition is a good move by Google. By purchasing a Korean company with a well-known executive team, TNC will provide the search giant some much-needed PR within the Korean market. After all, in order for Google to succeed in the Korean market, they need to be seen as a “Korean” company. And although Google already has Blogger, which is quite popular amongst more novice bloggers, Textcube offers functionality that rivals both Movable Type and WordPress. So is Google planning on rolling it out worldwide, aimed at that middle segment of the market of dedicated but not necessarily professional bloggers? If that’s the case, the big blogging companies would be well-advised to keep an eye on the trends in the Korean market. (Disclosure: TNC rival Automattic is a company backed by True Ventures, where GigaOM founder Om Malik is a venture partner. Malik is also a personal friend of Automattic founder, Matt Mullenweg. True Ventures is also an investor in GigaOM’s parent company, Giga Omni Media) 900 million PCs or 300 billion mobile handsets. Which is the bigger opportunity? Mobilize 08: GigaOM’s Next-Generation Mobile Conference Less

management, investing, startups Gregory T. Huang wrote: Bob Felton has been there, done that. Growing up in a farm town in Eastern Washington, the son of a migrant construction worker, he was the first in his family to go to college—at Washington State, where he studied mechanical engineering. He started his career at General Electric, then got his M.B.A from Harvard Business School and joined McKinsey & Company in 1972. In the consulting firm’s Los Angeles office, he rose to the rank of director and senior partner, founding McKinsey’s global board governance practice and running its office in Seoul, South Korea, which grew from 20 to 120 people during his tenure between 1996 and 2001. Afterwards, he moved back to Washington state, running McKinsey’s office in downtown Seattle. Since retiring in 2005, Felton has been investing in small tech companies on the West Coast—mainly in Seattle, Los Angeles, and Portland, OR— in areas like software, communications, biotech, and energy management. It’s quite a change from the big corporations Felton is used to dealing with in his career. He has recently joined four private company boards, and has invested (as an angel) in about 10 startups. “It’s way too many,” he says, half-joking. “I came out of McKinsey, and it was like a candy store…But none have died yet.” Which is saying something. So I figured, who better to give high-level perspective on investment, startups, and corporate leadership and management? Here are a few highlights from my recent conversations with Felton. —On the skills you need in a startup: “In the big-company world, you come in, you build a foundation,” says Felton. “You’re kind of a generalist. But at startups, from Day One you’ve got to have a developed skill. You’ll have to do operational finance on Day One, or fundraising on Day One. Unless you’ve got a grand idea like Bill Gates or the Facebook guy, if you aren’t the founder, you’ve got to have a plan to build skills so people come to you…It’s different from big companies, where they expect you to be smart and hard-working, but they will invest in building skills. In a startup, if you don’t have the skills, they change you out like underwear.” —On leadership in small companies: “It’s so much easier to move a startup. If you’re not moving, you’re probably dying,” says Felton. “You defined the market, but it’s not quite what you thought, so you quickly change and adapt all the time.” There’s no consensus building and fewer meetings, he adds, so “leadership means moving quickly, if you’re on the wrong track. Being bold is so important…Whereas big companies are proven, and the skill there is orchestrating and knowing how to motivate and energize a big organization that’s already successful.” Take GE, he says, which CEO Jack Welch could change over a time frame of years and decades, because it had a very strong market position. —On what to look for in a startup investment: “A unique technology, different from anything out there, where there is a substantial market. Or a known market, where there’s nothing [that] special about the product or market, but a very good management team. It’s usually one or the other,” Felton says. He prefers the former, because “it could be 50 or 100X your investment. The other, you could put it in a private equity fund or a VC fund, and it’s 3 or 4X.” The key characteristics of a great management team, he says, are experience, energy level, boldness to shape things, knowing where they are in the market, staying in touch with customers, and “shifting on a dime when the product is not quite right.” So how is he doing as an investor so far? “I’ve learned a lot, I’ve gotten better,” he says. “It’s been a hoot.” Comments | Permalink | Share |  E-mail Less

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It is once again brought to you by 41 Korea Trading, unfortunately MiKyeong wasn’t available today, she had a dental appointment. This week, we will once again have the vocabulary review. We will also talk in depth about the Be and Do Verb Questions, Tell Vs. Say, the to, in, at, on, for prepositions We will have our new features, business news tidbits and our business tip of the week. All transcripts are available at http://pbaenglish.blogspot.com and if you have any questions please feel free to email me at pagodapba@gmail.com Less

This is a programme in the “Shambles LIBcast” Podcast series produced by Chris Smith www.shambles.net/podcasting Conversations with librarians and media staff in International Schools in S.E. Asia Episode 4 This recording was made on 21st January 2007 In this program Chris talks with Carolyn Kitterer, Librarian, Seoul Foreign School (SFS) in South Korea. www.sfs.or.kr Carolyn shares ten years of experiences working in the library in Seoul.. The school has three libraries, Carolyn works in the Secondary Library (Media Support Centre). Links: Seoul Foreign School: www.sfs.or.kr UN Cyber Bus: www.un.org/cyberschoolbus Model United Nations MUN on Shambles: www.shambles.net/pages/students/ModelUN LM_NET: www.eduref.org/lm_net Less

Finally I discover what happens when you lose your bus ticket in a land where you cannot speak the language, and they cannot speak your language. Written and read by Marguerite Carstairs January 2007 Less

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Korean line-up of Terminal Quintet performing Synesthesia Urbania. Recorded at Art Centre Nabi, Seoul, August 2005. Performed by Jin Sangtae - Laptop, Middlewave Radio, Ryu Hankil - Laptop, Choi Soohwan - Laptop, Hong Solme - Cello and Andrew Garton - Laptop, theremini, programming. Less