The Seoul of a New Machine
Wired has
a nice article on my favourite East-Asian country, Korea, and the state of the Internet over there. 75% of all households sport a broadband connection, I will not even try to compare that with Germany (or the US, for that matter). The article also briefly mentions the fact that President Roh Moo-hyun owes his victory in the recent persidential election at least partially to "cyberspace". Whereas conservative newspapers such as the "
Chosun Il-Bo" clearly used their influence in the campaign to prevent Roh, an outspoken liberal and former human-rights lawyer, from becoming president (making
the conflict between Roh and the Chosun Il-Bo rather ugly at times), Roh could only rely on his team of e-mailing, posting, and chatting grass-root supporters called "
Nosamo" (
the people who love Roh Moo-hyun). For Korea, a country where almost everyone spends significant time online, this seemed to be a much better strategy to reach the younger generation that eventually elected Roh as president.
Posted by jens at August 27, 2003 12:11 PM
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