La semana pasada hemos escuchado voces de preocupación por el ensayo nuclear efectuado por Korea del Norte. Este se trató de una explosión nuclear bajo tierra al norte de este país.
Los antecedentes de Kim Jong-il no son los mejores al respecto, ha violado tratados de no proliferación de armas nucleares que él mismo ha firmado, mostrando indiferencia y reveldía ante las opiniones de naciones unidias y los demás paíces. Se acusa a su régimen de violaciones a los derechos
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Profesor Peter Lewis publica artículo en destacada revista coreana
El
documento titulado “US Foreign Policy toward the Korean Peninsula: An
Anti-Unification Policy or Just Too Many Uncertainties to Account For?”
fue incluidos en el reciente número de la reconocida revista
“International Journal of Korean Unification Studies”.
En
su artículo, el profesor Lewis explora las aparentes contradicciones en
la percepción que Corea del Sur posee acerca del la actitud de Estados
Unidos con respecto a la unificación coreana. Estas percepciones
serían:
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Recientemente ha salido al mercado coreano un nuevo celular ecológico, el nuevo Samsung Eco Phone SCH-W510.Se hace llamar ecológico porque está fabricado en su totalidad de bioplástico hecho a base de maíz, olvidándonos de los metales pesados como el mercurio.Tampoco quedándose atrás en el ámbito tecnico, este equipo viene con la última tecnología en cámara fotográfica, bluetooth, reproductor multimedia, etc.Conoce más de esto de la tecnología e innovaciones del mundo de hoy en EL CLARIVIDENTE
The Dutch innovation organization Springwise reports that Korean citizen journalism site OhmyNews is opening a school for citizen journalists. The program will take place in a renovated elementary school located 90 minutes from Seoul. The school is deliberately designed as a retreat, to "give urbanites a rare opportunity to recharge themselves as content creators in the middle of idyllic rural setting". classroom at the school The purpose of the program is to disseminate the skills of journalism more widely among
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Confieso que me siento atraído hacia el misticismo que tiene gran parte de Asia, desde India hasta Japón, pasando por China y Korea. No sé si son los caracteres difíciles de entender aunados a su estilismo y elementos culturales... simplemente me encanta.Algunos más "domesticados" que otros, los diseñadores japoneses han aportado parte de ese misticismo milenario de Asia al mundo de la moda de este lado, entiéndase occidente. Corbatas de moño, pantalones tubo, sacos y bufandas se fusionan con mangas
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In 2006, I founded ZapBoom Consulting, a firm which looks at how digital tools like cell phones and the Internet can be used in campaigns for social change, particularly in developing countries. I have researched and written reports on topics ranging from online citizen journalism to blog advocacy and internet censorship. I have also performed in-country Internet monitoring and international conference organizing. I first became interested in digital activism in 2004-2005 while living in Morocco. It was the fall after
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I wrote this report for the Internet and Democracy Project at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. The paper investigates the influence of the citizen journalism Web site OhmyNews during the 2002 South Korean Presidential election. It begins with a discussion of the phenomenon of citizen journalism and the importance of an independent media to democracy. It next moves to a discussion of the motivation for the creation of OhmyNews by Oh Yeon Ho and
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Now we know why Ron Paul is smiling.UPDATE: See the YouTube video belowTrevor Lyman, a supporter of libertarian presidential candidate Ron Paul, decided to help his preferred candidate raise money. He bought the domain ThisNovember5th.com, the purpose of which was to encourage people to make a small donation on that day. The campaign was ridiculously successful. This past Monday, the site raised $4 million for Ron Paul's presidential campaign.Interestingly enough, the site itself did not even collect the donations, but
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Columnist Thomas Friedman is worried about the politics of the Internet generation. He wrote the following in the New York Times on Wednesday in an editorial entitled "Generation Q." I just spent the past week visiting several colleges...and I can report that the more I am around this generation of college students, the more I am both baffled and impressed.... I’ve been calling them “Generation Q” — the Quiet Americans, in the best sense of that term, quietly pursuing their
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In the interest of defining what exactly grassroots digital activism is, I thought I'd create a list of some examples of grassroots digital campaigns. I'll be updating the list, so please send me your examples through the comments section.Nosamo (2000-present): This is the fan club of Korean president Roh Moo-Hyun (the group's name means "those who love Roh"). The independent volunteer organization used a website and digital organizing techniques to support the progressive campaign of Roh, who won the 2002
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