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A Chinese-made copycat game, allegedly modeled on the original Korean game, is ironically to be reimported to Korea, provoking a lot of controversy.

For game makers, their technological prowess in planning, characters, environments, and sounds is all-important and what makes them the most proud. In particular, the area of graphics is where the fiercest competition for survival is expected. As the years go by, boundaries between reality and games seem to get blurred. 

The Bible speaks of two meteors hitting the earth; one in the sea and one on land. Revelation 8:8 - 11 depicts, "The second Angel trumpeted. Something like a huge mountain blazing with fire was flung into the sea. A third of the sea turned to blood, a third of the living sea creatures died, and a third of the ships sank. The third Angel trumpeted. A huge Star, blazing like a torch, fell from Heaven, wiping out a third of the rivers and a third of the springs.

By Choi Sung, Professor of computer science at Namseoul University

(sstar@nsu.ac.kr)

NTREEV will throw a birthday party for Kooh from 26^th to 25^th of next month. Kooh is the legendary character from NTREEV-made online golf game, pangya.

For the 20-year anniversary of Korea and Mongolia diplomatic ties they will continue to push forward on the progress made with stronger relations and foster new approaches to Korea. Thus, Korea and Mongolia share a long history, cultural and linguistic ties, and as well as dynamic contemporary relations.

Koo Bon-moo, chairman of LG Group said, "LG must pour effort into procuring manpower and investment and also build creative, self-regulating group culture" on February 20 of this year, the day commemorating fifteenth anniversary since he took over LG group. The company's sales have quadrupled and market capitalization has increased by 10 times.

Korea Credit Guarantee Fund (KODIT) will expand and differentiate its extension of credit guarantees this year. Ahn Taik-soo, chairperson & CEO of KODIT stated, "We will expand the total volume of credit guarantees by KRW400 billion from KRW42.6 trillion in 2009 to KRW43 trillion in 2010."

The battle of search engines has been underway in China for quite some time. China's main search engine Baidu and it is the fourth biggest website in the world. It has a market value of US$3 billion, but is it able to keep up with Google. Google has accumulated 65 percent of the US search traffic. This made it the number one web site in the world, with 157 Million US visitors. It is a testing time for the Chinese as well.

The Visit Korea Year Committee (VKC) has been making a strong push for four major  projects in 2010 to attract 10 million tourists a year, a top official of the committee said.

Managing IP risk has become an essential part of doing business in the US. Patent infringement lawsuits claiming millions, or billions, of dollars in damages seem to increase year after year. Many companies - commonly referred to as non-practicing entities or patent trolls - are now created for the sole purpose of filing patent litigation.

What is the story behind Korea's success in culture content around the world? According to Robert Frost, "Two roads diverged in a wood, and [Korea] took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference." In a period of such fast growth in technological advancement, securing manpower and other methods that go by the book are cliché. Instead, Korean culture content took creative and ingenious ideas that go overboard, embracing all the possibilities.