Comments on: Green roof sightings in Seoul http://www.strangesystems.com/blog/green-roofs-seoul.html Architecture. User Experience. Exploring the overlap of physical and virtual. Fri, 07 Oct 2011 02:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: namho http://www.strangesystems.com/blog/green-roofs-seoul.html/comment-page-1#comment-1242 namho Thu, 06 Jan 2011 00:56:24 +0000 http://www.strangesystems.com/?p=938#comment-1242 David, I left Korea in 1994 for grad school in the US, and returned in 2007. What a total culture shock that was. I left when they had "Pipi's" - the affection name they gave to pagers (remember those?) and returned to find the country totally wired from top to bottom. Now that I have lived in Korea for the past few years, I feel spoilt at all the technology but still find places where technology has not help at all. Education is one of those areas where my 9-year old is learning MS Office in school as opposed to all the wonderfully creative ways that computers can be used in the classroom. Hope you have a chance to come back soon. David, I left Korea in 1994 for grad school in the US, and returned in 2007. What a total culture shock that was. I left when they had “Pipi’s” – the affection name they gave to pagers (remember those?) and returned to find the country totally wired from top to bottom. Now that

I have lived in Korea for the past few years, I feel spoilt at all the technology but still find places where technology has not help at all. Education is one of those areas where my 9-year old is learning MS Office in school as opposed to all the wonderfully creative ways that computers can be used in the classroom.

Hope you have a chance to come back soon.

]]> By: David Everitt-Carlson http://www.strangesystems.com/blog/green-roofs-seoul.html/comment-page-1#comment-1241 David Everitt-Carlson Wed, 05 Jan 2011 23:21:38 +0000 http://www.strangesystems.com/?p=938#comment-1241 This all makes me miss Korea a bit. I arrived there in 1995 where the company accountant complained that as the #2 man in the company, that I had one more telephone line than the President. And each line cost $15 a month. 1 for the phone. 2 for the mechanical tape answering machine. And 3 for this new-fangled thing called 'The Internet'. My how Korea has changed - for the better. This all makes me miss Korea a bit. I arrived there in 1995 where the company accountant complained that as the #2 man in the company, that I had one more telephone line than the President. And each line cost $15 a month. 1 for the phone. 2 for the mechanical tape answering machine. And 3 for this new-fangled thing called ‘The Internet’. My how Korea has changed – for the better.

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