Future Web Forum, Seoul
March 18th, 2007 by Gen KanaiI can’t read Hangul unfortunately, but it looks like the Future Web Forum event in Seoul, Korea on Friday, March 16th was well-attended. I hope to hear more details of the event soon.
Korean Global Web Technology Workshop supported by web browser vendors.
(Mar. 8, 2007, Seoul, Korea) The Global Web Technology Workshop will be held by the Future Web Forum (FWF) on March 16 at the Textile Center Bldg. in Samsungdong, Seoul, Korea. The FWF is a web expert group for the adoption of global web technologies and standards within the Korean web industry. The FWF consists of experts with over10 years of experience in Microsoft Korea, Apple Korea, Opera Software Korea and Web Standards.
This event is officially supported by Microsoft Korea, Mozilla Corporation and Opera Software Korea. In this workshop, Mr. Channy Yun of the Mozilla Korean Community will speak about Firefox 3 and rich web applications as well WHATWG activities. Mr. Goodhyun Kim of Microsoft Korea will speak about Windows Vista and WPF/e. Mr. Suyong Wang of Apple Korea will explain the Safari Browser and the difficulties Macintosh users have on the Korean web environment. Finally Mr. Manyoung Cho of Opera Korea will introduce the Opera browser, Opera Widgets and Opera’s web standards evangelism efforts.
In a panel discussion, these experts will discuss the trends of global web technologies and the Korean situation caused by ActiveX incompatibility issues on Microsoft Windows Vista after each presentations. They will become this issue in view of outsider and global terms show screen casts of examples in internet banking and e-governments site in abroad.
This event will be helpful to explain global standards and the abnormal situation of the Korean Internet to decision makers in the Korean government and the Korean IT industry. The event is free. Those interested can register at http://event.futurewebforum.org. (Mar. 7, 2007)