When 70,000 North Korean soldiers filed across the 38th parallel during the rainy pre dawn of June 25, 1950, their aggression sparked a three year flame of destruction. After the armistice doused the flames in 1953, South Korea’s per capita GNPwas under $100 per year.

Remember the 1988 Seoul Olympics? They put South Korea on the map as a global force that had risen from the ashes of the Korean War and 35 years after the signing of the armistice in 1953, was ready to step into the international spotlight for all the world to marvel over its accomplishments.

A new battleground has opened between Korean and Japanese technology companies to bring affordable 3DTV technologies and products to mainstream consumers.

Tony Michell is that most rare of Korea experts. His own local colleagues encouraged this learned, objective analyst to write about business here. Tony has worked at the Economic Planning Board, consulted for the World Ban, multinationals and governments, and is Professor of Strategy and Management at the KDI Graduate School of Policy and Management.

The 21st century is rightfully called the Biological Century. More technological breakthroughs in the medical and industrial spheres are expected with heavily funded research programs underway in most countries of the world. Developments in the fields of biology and medicine, such as human genome sequencing and research to create cell and organ functions, have led to a critical change in many industrial segments and strengthened the medical engineering profession.

The automotive industry in Thailand has shown robust growth in spite of the political turmoil in the country. It has been successful in retaining its position as the “Detroit of Asia.” Ford Motors insists on opening a plant in Thailand in spite of the unrest, a clear indication of continued support from the auto industry.

There are always fads and trends not only in fashion, but also in business management strategy. Six sigma was once a must have tag to improve the manufacturing processes. According to the book “Institute’s Six Sigma Breakthrough and Beyond,” by the late 1990s about two-thirds of the Fortune 500 organizations had begun Six Sigma initiatives with the aim of reducing costs and improving quality.

Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) is one of the finest markup languages available for Web pages. It is a way to develop structured documents. It also helps embed images and objects to create interactive Web pages. The latest version of HTML, HTML5, was published as a Working Draft by the WC3 on Jan. 22, 2008. The World Wide Web Consortium is the maintainer of HTMLand CSSstandards.

As most of Europe and the rest of North America continue to reel from the second round of the global financial crisis, China’s economic outlook continues upward. The first quarter of 2010 posted an 11.9 percent surge in economic growth, backed by an astonishing 48.5 percent jump in exports in May of this year.

Not a familiar term, Mojo stands for Mobile Journalists comprising of free¬lance reporters who do not have a news¬room or office in the news agency’s premises. Mobile journalists are armed with sophisticated gadgets or technical tools like camcorders, digital cameras, laptop PCs with broadband wireless and the ubiq¬uitous smartphones.

Mojos feed news to newspaper Web sites, online magazines, online newspapers, Web sites of newspa¬pers, sites like YouTube and even their own blogs.