안녕 everybody~
Welcome to the third blog post of this semester!
This week we will be covering Korea's Technological Culture. This included a variety of Korean technology and Korean gaming!
To start of the club meeting, we talked about the various technology related things you could find in Korea. This started from the Incheon Airport where you could even find a robot making coffee, hologram concerts which were known as K-Live, and as Mars stated there are a lot of cashless payments that could be made in Korea to the point where you just need to carry your phone to pay for anything.
When we talked about the fast-paced advancement in technology, we talked about the older generation.
Jun stated that old people cannot maintain technological equipment themselves. PJ added that old people tend to give up trying to use it in the first place and just end up asking their children to teach them, having a way to keep a bond between the younger generation through this. Mars went more in-depth by talking about how biologically it is harder to figure out technology and as we get older, we become more accustom to a set daily pattern. It isn't impossible but it is definitely harder for the older generation to learn new technology which continues to develop every year. Dori was actually more shocked at how dependent people were becoming on technology. Especially with how Korea can have all their personal information on their phone which was different from how even sharing your own social security number in America would be dangerous.
We discussed how technology was thriving in Korea which made sense as firms like LG and Samsung are based in Korea. This lead to us discussing how much Koreans use smartphones in general, which did not surprise any of us. PJ compared her phone usage to when she is in Thailand and noticed that she uses a lot more apps when back in Korea. This was mainly due to the number of necessary apps that are needed just for socializing.
To slowly wrap-up our journey on technology in Korea, we visited the popularity of E-sports in Korea. Games such as League of Legends, Overwatch, Battlegrounds and other online multiplayer games are shown to be popular in Korea. It's come to a point where it is easy for you to spot a PC cafe also known as a PC방 in Korea. Most areas that have a lot of young children tend to have a couple of PC cafes where you can play games. We had talked about a few games we used to play when we were younger and at some point came upon "E-Girls" within the gamer community which shocked most of us.
And that was a wrap on Technological Culture!
Welcome to the third blog post of this semester!
This week we will be covering Korea's Technological Culture. This included a variety of Korean technology and Korean gaming!
To start of the club meeting, we talked about the various technology related things you could find in Korea. This started from the Incheon Airport where you could even find a robot making coffee, hologram concerts which were known as K-Live, and as Mars stated there are a lot of cashless payments that could be made in Korea to the point where you just need to carry your phone to pay for anything.
When we talked about the fast-paced advancement in technology, we talked about the older generation.
Jun stated that old people cannot maintain technological equipment themselves. PJ added that old people tend to give up trying to use it in the first place and just end up asking their children to teach them, having a way to keep a bond between the younger generation through this. Mars went more in-depth by talking about how biologically it is harder to figure out technology and as we get older, we become more accustom to a set daily pattern. It isn't impossible but it is definitely harder for the older generation to learn new technology which continues to develop every year. Dori was actually more shocked at how dependent people were becoming on technology. Especially with how Korea can have all their personal information on their phone which was different from how even sharing your own social security number in America would be dangerous.
We discussed how technology was thriving in Korea which made sense as firms like LG and Samsung are based in Korea. This lead to us discussing how much Koreans use smartphones in general, which did not surprise any of us. PJ compared her phone usage to when she is in Thailand and noticed that she uses a lot more apps when back in Korea. This was mainly due to the number of necessary apps that are needed just for socializing.
To slowly wrap-up our journey on technology in Korea, we visited the popularity of E-sports in Korea. Games such as League of Legends, Overwatch, Battlegrounds and other online multiplayer games are shown to be popular in Korea. It's come to a point where it is easy for you to spot a PC cafe also known as a PC방 in Korea. Most areas that have a lot of young children tend to have a couple of PC cafes where you can play games. We had talked about a few games we used to play when we were younger and at some point came upon "E-Girls" within the gamer community which shocked most of us.
And that was a wrap on Technological Culture!
Comments
Post a Comment