Reina's splendid sun-The Korea Report

Anecdote of a Magpie Asleep on the Wing

2009-04-21T01:42:00.000-07:00

The horizon extends on a plane formed
By a black-spotted leaf rigid
In a summer gust, the ginkgo un-
Burdened, the Poet said,
By the departure at a sudden of
The blue-winged magpie,
The ginkgo – at last – free to dance
On its own, no longer holding
Up the serene bird, nor the incense
Rising in the heated room where
You sleep, calmed by the breeze from an
Open window and by the furniture’s
Tension, the discreet call of the burning
Smoking teapot placing you
Deeper in a feather-lined dream, below
You the smoke-stacked train
Of a distant period tracing the edge
Of a deer-headed cliff dipping
Its antlered coronet to drink from the clear
Aqua of the peninsula, where
You were born once in the shape of a
Woman. The blue-winged magpie
Searches for the day before yesterday’s
Snow, somewhere in a land still
Haunted by the winter’s regress,
By a dream of frosted chrome
On which the piping hot reflections
And the humid chill converge
To form a face half-buried by youth
And older than the shrines
In which it prayed for death and life
To join hands, at last, like the
Husband and wife they always were,
And are descending gently
Over the platinum city in a hush
Of sculptured snowdrops,
Etched by the minute nails and
The toll of clockhands, the
Frozen river which the train has pursued
And seeks to possess and
Imitates with the dexterity of a curving
Line, the anamnesis, the
Anabasis of a still life recalled, the
Bivouac of an army
Derailed by deflowered corpses.
The ginkgo once it has
Started will not stop its dance,
And the wind dried up
By tiredness sits down to watch
On the glowing embers
Of the grass, the seasons in audience
And debating who shall
Join first, the Autumn, the Summer,
The Spring? The winter
And the magpie have long been
Lovers, the infinity of
The Sky, the eternity of the Sea,
From any distance, will
Meet again and renew, the Earth
Allowing for wisdom
To play amongst the boulders.
Where is she – my beloved?
The magpie dreams of a woman
Enraptured in sleep
By the blue-lit ceiling, the fingers
Of her hands extended
On the plane of a black-spotted
Leaf yellowed by desire
And stretched out forever in a
Blessing, praising Him
For His immensity, her black-breast
Sweat-dappled with
The azure dust of His voluminous
Chest. Where can she not
Go, if she were living, now that
The ginkgo’s free on earth,
Her roots in the atoms of the sky,
Her eyes blind from love
And reflective of heaven’s
Concentration, numerous
And singular as a color lightened
By the absence of clouds?
The color of her arms stretches
And widens to the white
Quiet sun, moist from the rain
That caresses her denuded
Shield, her scaly tan claws
Heavy with smoke-stacks
And sleep-inducing herbs.
The ginkgo dances to the
Cadence of the black-spotted
Leaf on the verge of
Falling into the lasting embrace,
Drunk with depths
And yellow with mildewed
Breezes and the
Algae of the terminus. The magpie
Has disappeared
Behind the formless arms of a god,
His lips are her lips.

Joseph Luis Moctezuma

World Search Market & Qrobo

2009-02-04T00:40:00.001-08:00

World Search Market & Qrobo

1.Search Engine Passes Over From Internet Power to World Government

Information technology is a technology for handling information, drawing maximum effect from this information, and using its specific value efficiently. The internet is the vast arena in which every conceivable form of information circulates through the world, and searching is the primary means of collecting, archiving and accessing this enormous quantity of information. The circuitous nature of information calls for an agency with the kind of intelligence that can search the web independently, a guide to lead the user to the exact information that is sought. This guide requires intelligence since it aims to satisfy information producers and information users simultaneously.

As information increases and expands its reach on the internet, the need for a superior guide that can meet the demands of the common user and survive the fiercest competition arises in a brave new technological world of power and wealth – ‘The gateway to the internet will be the guide to power.’ These are the reasons why search is the real power and kernel behind the future of IT. As a matter of fact, a single enterprise has been winning the competition and amassing a still unknown reservoir of wealth. As ‘the emperor of search,’ Google has taken pole position in the world's mindset. Google's sales for search advertisements are $3 billion for each quarter. When Google started as a small venture shared by two men, few would have expected its annual sales to reach 10 trillion dollars, with a market cap around 100 billion dollars. Google now operates 300 thousand computers and gathers information on the internet around the world (and around the clock) for all major international languages. Recently, Google announced a huge and ambitious project plan. The project is to launch 16 artificial satellites and offer wireless internet to 3 billion marginalized people by 2010.

Google started its brand with the idea that since everyday there appears in the world a constant stock of new information, there would have to be present a vigilant company capable of organizing this endless increase of information on a daily basis for the greater good of the information producers and users. Now much more than a mere venture enterprise, Google performs the secret role of an invisible, yet quite influential, world government. So it is possible to speak of ‘a world changing along with Google.’ The success of Google provides the best evidence for the increased influence a search engine exerts on the internet, the IT sphere, and the world at large.

2. The Logic of the Situation (1)

: The Bowling Over of America in the World Market At present, there is a race between Yahoo and Microsoft to catch up with Google in the global search market. Last year ComScore surveyed 750 million users around the world and revealed surprisingly that Baidu (a Chinese company) and Naver (a Korean company) were in third and fifth place, respectively. Despite this very successful showing, some claim that the results do not demonstrate the relative positions these search companies have in the global market, since their achievements are limited to China and Korea alone, two countries which enjoy an enormous access and market share within their respective regions.
Early on in its economic boom, Korea’s success in the construction, manufacture, and IT industries put the country in line with the developed powers of the world, and the international community was brought further to recognize Korea as an IT and electronics powerhouse with the exposure the 2002 FIFA World Cup brought to the international reach of companies like Samsung and LG. But as the development of a global search technology continues to fail in light of great expectations, this IT-driven country faces a dark shadow in its future. Already there are doubts about the significance of a strictly internal, closed portal system, while anti-portal mood spreads among skeptics. Though one of the biggest obstacles for search companies, if they are to avoid ‘the backwater of search,’ is the language barrier, the primary reason for the absence of a truly innovative search technology to compete in the world market is the yet untested limits of the technology itself.

3. The Logic of the Situation (II) –The Presence of Europe, the World’s Science Leader, and Japan, the World’s IT Leader

France is currently ranked number one in the world for high tech aerospace engineering, while other developed European countries, in competition with American hegemony, have gained similar footholds in the advanced science and IT industries. Japan maintains the current fastest and smoothest internet environment and leads the world in IT development. But the development of search engine technology is a different issue. In major European developed countries, Google controls 90% of the market share. In Japan, Yahoo holds 56%, while Google enjoys 31% of the market share, which means American search engines control 87% of the total market in Japan.

Fortunately, there is a gradual movement to change the world market territory. The EU and Japan recognize the impending importance of search engine technology and have cooperated with their respective governments to secure next generation advancements. Japan has pushed this movement in its support of the “Information Odyssey Period Research Society,” a project coordinated by an academic-industrial association that aims to loosen the strong grip American search engines have on Japanese web users.

4. The Logic of the Situation (III)
–After 20 Years, Korean Search Engine Development Remains Strictly National

The history of search engine development in Korea is almost 20 years, but the results, from an international viewpoint, have been lackluster. The two most used search engines in Korea, Naver and Daum, share 90% of the total market in Korea, yet they have not developed international versions for the global market. Though these two search engines have been satisfying regional users with an abundance of high quality content, these portals cannot promise similar high quality content to an international market, since they are reluctant to go beyond the prominence they enjoy at home.

Netizens have demonstrated the need to access information across national borders, since information on the web has the tendency to move across international forums. In order to meet a bigger world and have dialogue with various voices in different countries and languages, these portals will need to extend their capacity to satisfy netizens who have a multinational interest in a growing world network. The need to provide better leadership and guidance in a global web culture is becoming a pressing issue.

When Naver failed to create inroads into Japan, national interest in overseas web expansion was momentarily frustrated. NHN (Naver’s parent company) withdrew from Japan after it had failed to establish NHN-Japan with any permanence. Recently Naver has tried again to introduce a Naver-Japan service, but expectations are much lower than before as a result of renewed doubts over the difficulty of crossing a mountain ‘extending to other languages.’

5. Qrobo, the Pride of Korean Web Technology

With the introduction of Qrobo into the arena, a new hope has emerged. Though it only has six months in the open market, Qrobo has already managed to develop a Japanese search service (which NHN tried to do for the last 8 years) in just three months. Thus, Qrobo is the only non-American company that can boast having a multilingual search engine technology like Google’s.

Qrobo uses a state-of-the-art technology that conducts ‘semantic’ searches powered by AI robots that understand and analyze a large number of relations between words. In this way the robots arrive at increasingly more accurate results rather than at a pile of unfiltered information. The ‘information-oriented period’, which fostered the mass popularization of information, is now transitioning to a new and bolder ‘relevance period’, which aims at refining information into a more accurate and heavily personalized structure. Qrobo’s ‘relevance search’ raises the accuracy of the search results by focusing on the semantic relationships that are aroused when an infinite variety of keyword combinations are used. This more sophisticated ‘ontological’ technology corresponds exactly to the demands of a new period in web search.

The search engine is more than a means of ‘surfing the web’; it is also at the core of the fundamental IT science principles that comprise all forms of IT technology. NTT (the company at the head of the Japanese government’s search engine development project) recently offered Qrobo the opportunity to work together on developing the world’s next-level multilingual search engine. It is an inspiring occasion for Qrobo to show its technological prowess to the world.

Qrobo is still an infant in the search engine market, but there is no other search engine company of the same age that promises as much global potential. Qrobo is planning to open a global service all around the world in only three years, and it carries with it the dream of strengthening Korea’s world IT power.

Lee Jung-Seob, the painter I knew - Kim Chun-Su

2009-01-20T20:31:00.000-08:00

내가 만난 이중섭

광복동에서 만난 이중섭은
머리에 바다를 이고 있었다.
동경에서 아내가 온다고
바다보다도 진한 빛깔 속으로
사라지고 있었다
눈을 씻고 보아도
길 위에
발자국이 보이지 않았다
한참 뒤에 나는 또
남포동에서 어느 찻집에서
이중섭을 보았다
바다가 잘 보이는 창가에 앉아
진한 어둠이 깔린 바다를
그는 한뼘 한뼘 지우고 있었다
동경에서 아내는 오지 않는다고,

"Lee Jung-Seob, the painter I knew" - Kim Chun-Su
--------translated by Jose Luis Moctezuma

I met Lee Jung-Seob in Kwangbok district.
He carried the sea on his head.
He said his wife would return from Tokyo,
but was lost in a blue more intense than the ocean.
However much I rinsed my eyes
no trace could be discerned in the streets.
After some time
I found him again in a teahouse
in Nampo district.
He was seated next to a window
from which the sea could be seen
adumbrated by a thick penumbra,
and he erased the sea
with the span of his hand
entirely.
He tells me his wife won't return
from Tokyo.
...

이중섭1

저무는 하늘
동짓달 서리 묻은 하늘을

아내의 신발 신고
저승으로 가는 까마귀

까마귀는
남포동 어디선가 그만

까욱하고 한번만 울어버린다.
오육도를 바라고 아이들은
돌팔매질을 한다.

저무는 바다,
돌 하나 멀리멀리
아내의 머리 위 떨어지러라.

이 중섭 2

바람아 불어라,
서귀포에는 바다가 없다.
남쪽으로 쓸리는

끝없는 갈대밭과 강아지풀과
바람아 네가 있을 뿐
서귀포에는 바다가 없다.

아내가 두고 간
부러진 두 팔과 멍든 발톱과
바람아 네가 있을 뿐

가도 가도 서귀포에는
바다가 없다.
바람아 불어라.

이 중섭3

아내는 두번이나
마굿간에서 아이를 낳고
지금 아내의 모발은 구름 위에 있다.

봄은 가고
바람은 평양에서도 동경에서도
불어오지 않는다.

바람은 울면서 지금
서귀포의 남쪽을 불고 있다.

서귀포의 남쪽
아내가 두고 간 바다,

게 한 마리 눈물 흘리며, 마굿간 에서 난
두 아이를 달래고 있다.

이중섭 4

씨암탉은 씨암탉,
울지 않는다.

네잎 토끼풀 없고
바람만 분다.

바람아 불어라, 서귀포의 바람아
봄 서귀포에서 이 세상의
제일 큰 쇠불알을 흔들어라
바람아.

http://blog.daum.net/dararang/11898341
http://blog.daum.net/bonaventura52/11856733
http://blog.daum.net/countrychacha/11031987
http://blog.naver.com/yc510?Redirect=Log&logNo=40025566336
http://article.joins.com/article/article.asp?total_id=3400260&ctg=12

꽃

내가 그의 이름을 불러주기 전에는
그는 다만
하나의 몸짓에 지나지 않았다.

내가 그의 이름을 불러주었을 때
그는 나에게로 와서
꽃이 되었다.

내가 그의 이름을 불러준 것처럼
나의 이 빛깔과 향기에 알맞은
누가 나의 이름을 불러다오.
그에게로 가서 나도
그의 꽃이 되고 싶다.

우리들은 모두
무엇이 되고 싶다.
너는 나에게 나는 너에게
잊혀지지 않는 하나의 눈짓이 되고 싶다

AI Search Robots of 'Qrobo' - Next Generation Search Engine

2009-01-15T19:53:00.000-08:00

New Robot Idol Group!!!
--GATHERROBO, ONTOROBO, DOCUROBO, ISSUEROBO, TAGROBO, PERSONALROBO

Qrobo - The World's First Semantic Search Engine
99.9% Automatic Gathering information/Constructing ontology/Classfying documents/Trasiting issue/Making Tags/Personalizing

http://www.qrobo.com/
http://www.qrobo.com/index_se.php
http://www.qrobo.com/visual/
http://japan.qrobo.com/

A book about Latin America by a Korean Traveler

2009-01-15T18:36:00.000-08:00

A Turkish Bar in 혜화동 대학로, Seoul, Korea

2009-01-15T17:43:00.000-08:00

'Hehwadong Daehangno' is one of the main street for young people around the univercities in Seoul, Korea.
There are many small theaters for play, performance and multiplex movie theater, too.
You can have various foods and drink in the area, since there are so many restaurants and bars from very Korean style to western and ethnic style.

Many restaurants are good for poor young students, they have good and low price foods and traditional Korean wine especially rice wine called 'Makgulli'..ummm..so smooth and yammy. They are good for having fun time with friends.

But when you don't have anybody to go to popular bar or restaurant, you can find some hidden bars, like a Turkish bar 'Istanbul'.
The owner is a nice Korean man, little bit big(not tall), and the cook is a Turkish man, tall and black hair, and there are two kind young girl workers.

It is not big bar but cozy. I didn't notice the bar first time as it is on second floor in a building which is located in the alley. I saw a information about turkish beer 'efes pilsener', came up the bar to satify my thirsty throat.

I ordered a plate of lamp Ishkender kebap(sliced grilled lamp covered with grounded tomato sauce and wet bread and sour plain yoghourt)and 2 bottle of efes.
They were not high but good enough for having relaxing time by myself

Canto Destruido, por Carlos Pellicer - (¡feliz cumpleaños, bonita mia!)

2008-12-29T18:33:00.000-08:00

In what ray of light, absent love
has your absence posed? Whole in my eyes
does your naked presence shine.
Duets of solitude play my hands
filled with acid freeze
& torn horizons.

I see the autumn full of hope
like a late spring
in which a single star
lives out the shifting evening sky.

I love you, love of mine, & I do nothing
to call you. I sense
that my eyes pain from not crying. & I see
that your absence finds me
like an ardent sky
& a sad happiness of not using it
like on those days in which nothing happens
& the entire house is
futilely illuminated.

In the destroyed chamber of your absence
mortified twilights relive
their rags, purpled with memory.
In the boarding house of your absence
I make use of everything, hammering nails
in the four walls of your absence.

& this closed-off world
that opens itself to the interior of an ancient forest,
sees time wither,
sees light turn to dust, & looks everywhere
without finding a point of departure.

Although you come tomorrow
in your absence of today I've lost a certain kingdom.

Your body is the country of caresses,
in which I, desolate traveler,
- all the itinerary of my kisses -
pass the autumn in order not to die,
without knowing the value of your absence
like a diamond hidden in what is most sorrowful.

Joan Miro, The Last Passion

2008-12-28T21:39:00.000-08:00

Hongdae street - Maponaru

2008-12-28T18:05:00.000-08:00

Andy, Blanca, BK, SO and I went Hongdae street and we found a cool restaurant named Maponaru(마포나루).

We ordered 'hot stew of old kimchi with chicken'(묵은 김치 닭찜) and 'Galbizzim' and Mokguli.

http://www.qrobo.com/span/view.php?c=0&url=http://blog.daum.net/lamp1004/11934989%0A&q=홍대+마포나루

http://www.qrobo.com/span/view.php?c=0&url=http://tong.nate.com/cocachoco/44332627%0A&q=마포나루

La Casa Azul - Dining information

2008-12-17T21:05:00.000-08:00

2008/11/25Las Cazuelas in Philadelphia
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2008/10/07Dining-La Casa Azul

warm looking beer for movie time at home

2008-12-17T21:01:00.000-08:00

art news

2008-12-16T21:49:00.000-08:00

2008/12/09 Khaled Hosseini's interview
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