south korea
Design
True Beauty: The Winning 2014 Asian Games Stadium Design
1:00PM Rosa Golijan | We can argue about whether it looks like an alien spaceship, a colony on a distant planet or something else, but let’s agree that the winning stadium design for the 2014 Asian Games is mind-blowingly gorgeous. More »
Robots
Massive 364-Foot Taekwon V Statue Will Crush Puny Humans
9:45PM Danny Allen | Holy crap! So Japan builds giant Gundam and Testsujin statues (18 and 18.3 metres, respectively), now South Korea is building this freakin’ huge Taekwon V (Voltar the Invincible) replica that will be more than twice the height of the Statue of Liberty. More »
Design
South Korea Building Self-Sufficient Super-City At What Cost?
1:00PM Rosa Golijan | Designed by Foster + Partners, the Incheon “super-city” will incorporate biomass energy generation, hydrogen fuel cells and hydroponic roofs in order to be the greener city on the other side. No word on how much pollution the construction will cause. More »
Online
North Korea Now Attacking US Government Sites, Sources Say
2:50AM Jesus Diaz | Since North Korea’s unreliable “Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles” are still far from hitting the US, Kim Jong Il’s hacker hordes are now attacking US government web sites. At least, according to the South Korea Information Security Agency. More »
Robots
Japan Has Double the Robots of Everyone Else, Density-Wise
3:15PM Elaine Chow | As a break from all this CES news, let’s talk about robots—specifically, which countries are chock full of them. Unsurprisingly, Japan has the densest robot population, with 295 industrial automatons per every 10,000 workers. More »
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