» by GI Korea February 1st, 2010 at 3:49 pm » Comments (14)

This is pretty significant considering how far Samsung has come to recreate their brand image to one of electronics quality: Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s leader in memory chips and flat ...more »

» by GI Korea February 1st, 2010 at 8:42 am » Comments (3)

Remember this the next time you hear a Korean complain about "tainted" American beef: The Agriculture Ministry has confirmed the sixth outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) at an animal farm in ...more »

» by GI Korea January 22nd, 2010 at 4:43 pm » Comments (2)

I have read accounts before of people making a lucrative living from earning online video game currency and items and then selling them to other players for real cash.  The ...more »

» by GI Korea January 20th, 2010 at 8:21 am » Comments (34)

It appears that those Outback Steakhouses you see around Korea and other Asian nations may have their days numbered due to lagging sales: The parent of Outback Steakhouse has decided to ...more »

» by GI Korea December 14th, 2009 at 6:39 pm » Comments (5)

See even bulldozing. pouring concrete, and completely changing the natural environment can be considered as going green now: Last month, on a gravelly embankment of the Youngsan River here, President Lee ...more »

» by GI Korea October 28th, 2009 at 8:47 pm » Comments (2)

Actually in some cases Ford is making vehicles that is surpassing the quality of both the Japanese and Korean auo manufacturers: Asian automakers are still building the most reliable cars and ...more »

» by GI Korea October 19th, 2009 at 2:41 am » Comments (13)

It will be interesting to see if this FTA does put any pressure on the President to get a deal done with the South Koreans or not?  I doubt it: President ...more »

» by GI Korea October 14th, 2009 at 4:59 pm » Comments (2)

I'm sure some of will find these statistics of interest: Korea ranked ninth in the world in carbon dioxide emissions in 2007, according to a new report by the International Energy ...more »

» by GI Korea October 8th, 2009 at 10:45 pm » Comments (7)

Yahoo Autos has their list out for the worst cars of the decade and unsurprisingly to me, anything made by Daewoo made the list: 9. Daewoo Anything 1999-2002 We had just tested a ...more »

» by GI Korea October 6th, 2009 at 4:14 am » Comments (2)

This is the first time I have seen a foreign defense firm investigated like this in Korea: Saab, a Swedish defense firm, is being investigated here over alleged illegal lobbying of ...more »

» by GI Korea October 5th, 2009 at 4:08 am » Comments (5)

Korean car maker Hyundai continues to turn heads with its cars and now the Japanese automakers are taking notice as well: Hyundai Motor Co. – not the up-and-coming Chinese, not the ...more »

» by JoeC October 2nd, 2009 at 4:49 am » Comments (2)

Two IT related articles caught my eye this week. The first suggests that Apple's iPhone's success in Korea may fall short because subscribers won't have access to Apple's App ...more »