Nami Island Visit

One nice weekend in Korea, Mr Park spent his whole day to take us to Nami Island, a place where the shooting of Winter Sonata took place. This has been more than a month ago but only now i thought that I should put this up on my blog since that there's nothing is up actively lately. So here they are:


This is a bungee jump tower which is situated just at the boat jetty to Nami Island.






Owhh somebody has just fell... didn't made it to capture the moment.







At one of the Park within Nami Island. Mr Park and us had this nice photo shoot.







Quad cycle. if you've seen the amazing race asia season 1, then you might have seen such vehicle.





Taking a break. we had something to eat after a little while. We had pancakes (korean styles - the octopus pancake). Earrrghhh... sounds wierd food yeah?





Whose girl is that? Amat's or Dolah's? No body admits that the first place. but after leaving Nami Island, the bachelors sighing and regretting for not taking a good advantage of such moments.

What's going on in the office / Lab?

This is what we do........... fabrication, fabrication, fabrication






PCB Fabrication







Robot Fabrication









Dipping Machine







Training
Dolah is already gone back home by now. His photos is the only thing left.







Amat is setting up the PLC wiring.

The Season

Korea is in the Summer season at this moment. It's not as hot as in Malaysia but the people couldn't stand it much. I can't stand to be in a hot temperature either, so i guess that I am not much different than the Korean in that sense. I could be sweating like hell even by just standing in a warm atmosphere without much wind. People would find it weird especially Malaysian seeing me sweating like coming out of the shower whereas other people don't even have vapor sized water particle on their face.
Both Mr Park has been in Malaysia and they experienced how hot the weather was. Mr Park is the one who made the benchmark and from my observation, I think that it's true. The Korean could stand a 20 degrees celsius without feeling cold at all but can't stand a 32 degrees temperature.
So Malaysians, if you were to come & visit Korea (no visas required) come in Winter season so that you could go visit Nami Island, a Winter Sonata drama location and ice skating on a frozen river. Don't worry, the frozen river is very safe because the ice thickness is about 2-3 feet where you could drill a hole and go fishing. Isn't it great?

Free newspaper concept

How often do you receive free copy of newspaper? In a developed countries like Korea, there are several brands of free newspapers distributed at any train stations, bus stop & public places. The news companies survive by the advertisement slot sold to corporations. They must have earned so much to the point that they can give it for free. Maybe these news company are being sponsored by government or they may be owned by government as a major shareholder.

These freely distributed newspapers may have several positive & negative side. The positive side would be the emergence of knowledgeable people. Reading news provide the person's alertness & awareness of the current issues that is going on.

On the other hand, sometimes a few bunch of newspaper wasn't made its way to the readers. The recycled item seekers might have taken them & sell to the recycle item vendor.
People do not appreciate it's value & leave it anywhere they like & messing up the place after finish reading.Looking up to these case it would be useful if the newspaper sold at a nominal value.

Automotive Industry in Korea

Korea has quite a number of vehicle manufacturers including Hyundai, Kia, Samsung, Daewoo & others to name a few. The automotive industry in Korea is becoming a highly profitable business and becoming as one of the country’s major export. The promotion for Hyundai Sonata in United States in a few years back was very intense and very promising. It’s the advertisements and promotions that boost up the sales because they manage to come out with a very good package for the after sales service. Hyundai provided free service for 2 years which wiped out the closest competitor. This was the major factor which boosts up the sales and brought the brand as one of the top car manufacturer in the world.

The other player in Korea includes the Kia which is also becoming one of the top sales in Korea and several other countries. Kia came up second place after Hyundai as the top brand of automobile. Now Hyundai and Kia has teamed up and merged to become one big company and dominates Korean market. This strategy has been a greatest decision made by the stakeholders as it creates a very huge company with huge capital income.

The other player is Samsung which is a very well known brand in the electronic industries. This is an interesting and surprising fact as other countries might have not heard about it before. The trend these days in Korea is that once a manufacturer is making a good progress and becoming a well known company, they tend to venture into other areas which they believe is highly profitable.

Beautiful culture

It's being practiced all over the Asians whether in Melbourne, Kuala Lumpur, Seoul etc. I'm not too sure if this culture exists in western countries. I'm saying this because i've been in those places. Therefore this is about my own opinion & experiences. This could be different with some other people.

Whenever you are on a public transport, the seats are limited and should be reserved for certain people that "u know who". In Japan & Korea, this has become a compulsory and should be practiced by everybody.

It's a little ashame having an old folks standing right in front of you while u were sitting & u don't feel like letting it go. Others would think that u are so mean & not being nice. The Aussies are quite about the same because they have beautiful mind, honest & cleanheart.

Speaking about honesty, should we think of what others think about us or should we think about the weak old man? This has become the topic which is being thought for certain people who are not sure of what action should they take.

How this sincere culture can be inculcated to young generations mind? If there is a method that can cultivate that, the world will become better place.

It's not easy to measure the average sincerity of a group of correspondence during a survey. It's just that people would respond differently if they were being questioned compared to the actual situation.