Time for TED (TEDxSeoul)

This week TEDMed is happening in San Diego in California and of course I wish I could be there, however, TEDxSeoul, an even I have been working on for a few months with a great team is priming to hold our first event on November 28th.

We will have onsite realtime translation to English and Korean depending on the language of the speaker and we will be live streaming the event online. I will post more details when we have opened registration but for now if you are interested, follow us on twitter and join our facebook group. 

The video is just a TED teaser which I am sure most of you are familiar with. If you are new to TED, please get watching.

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Markets and Hobbies

In Korea there is a very strong culture of early adoption and hobbyists for a number of market types. One in particular is that of photography and in certain areas of Seoul you can't go a few minutes without seeing a top end fully professional DSLR. In this market however there is also a lot of diversity and products like Lomo are quite well established. Similarly film photography is still strong.

It looks like I may do some work looking at this trend a bit later.

In Sinsa the other day, a father with a big camera and a daughter.