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World leader in GunBound kidnapped and he is not surrenderring his user account. How strong willed. Maybe he knows the kidnappers are just a bunch of childish kids – which they are by the way.

Gang Kidnaps Gamer to Get Password Using Fake Orkut Date

An armed gang of four kidnapped one of the world’s top RPG gamers after one criminal’s girlfriend lured him into a fake date using Orkut, Google’s social network. After sequestering him in Sao Paulo, they held a gun against the victim’s head for five hours to get his password, which they wanted to sell for $8,000.

The group leader had a gun against his head all that time but the guy didn’t say a word. At that point, the crooks gave up and decided to let him go. The brazilian police then caught the four suspects, aged 19 to 27.

According to the police, the captive is the world leader in GunBound, a turn-based RPG-style multiplayer online game. Developed in South Korea, in this artillery game you get more experience points, offensive and defensive capabilities depending on your skills during battle, as well as money to buy more weapons, armor and all kinds of gear for your multiple avatars. You can only play with one of your avatars each time, but all of them belong to a single account. (more…)

This is a parody of Kim Jong Il.

Extra 3 – Super Kim

I’m not sure what language is this. It sounds like German language. A translation would be great. But from what I can understand, Kim love Cognac. Everyone’s hungry and he seems blissfully unaware. Then he trades nuclear weapon for Cognac. Great work Kim!

Saw this at Flickr – a really strange toilet sign found in Korea.

The sign is spotted in Seoul, Korea. Ahh, we all know that the guy is merely doing some chin ups, nothing wrong with that.

Have you guys noticed that Singapore’s toilet signs are getting more and more creative? The toilets are too. They’re all trying to be unconventional and I just can’t wait to see those Plaza Singapura toilets installed in our neighborhood hawker centers.

YouTube and LG decides to partner to come out with phone, not sure if it would be successful. I’m not really fond of LG phones.

Youtube, SKorea’s LG agree to develop mobile phone

SEOUL (AFP) – South Korea’s LG Electronics said Tuesday it has signed an agrement with YouTube, the world’s biggest video-sharing website, to develop a mobile phone which can operate the service.

LG Electronics said the proposed model will enable users to upload, view and share video clips or user-created content (UCC) online freely without using computers.

“LG Electronics will unveil the mobile handset that fully supports the YouTube service for the first time in Europe in the second half of this year,” the South Korean firm said in a statement.

LG Electronics, the world’s fifth-largest mobile phone manufacturer, is also stepping up its partnership with Google, the world’s largest Internet serach engine which owns YouTube.

It began selling third-generation (3G) handsets called “Google phones” with software installed for directly using the Google service, in Europe last month.

Source: Yahoo! News

If they really do come out with this YouTube LG phones, I will mock at it for 1 week at least. Anyway, the market is just not ready for videos being served via mobile phones I think. Phones need to be a lot cheaper and the phone subscription need to be made cheaper too. That way, all the new-generation kids would go get cheated and purchase these YouTube phones. The students would find it fun… If they have the money.

And Daryl and I were talking about the LG logo, we don’t like it a lot.

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Me: LG has a frigging smiley that doesn’t look like its smiling. it looks like it’s winking at you but it really is just a terrible attempt to put alphabets ‘L’ and ‘G’ into a logo

D: i always think it’s freaky. bcos i imagine a real person w an LG head. but i always imagine freaky things.

Me: i don’t wish to imagine that, it’s nightmarish

The LG logo is the one with the red colored head.

Stephen Colbert is the newest Korean sensation. Rain got nothing on him.

Stephen Colbert Korean Music Video

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Cho Seung Hui (ì¡°ì?¹í¬), the troubled young man whose nightmarish assault on his fellow students will most likely be studied for years to come, doesn’t seem to have been someone who had any involvement with video games in his recent history.

The claim of video games causing Cho to commit this massacre is thereby inaccurate. Everytime such thing happens, someone would just blame computer games. I always thought that it’s something that the big media companies thought up since they are not producing or publishing any games.

Cho killed 33 students in Virginia Tech, including himself. Most of the people I know can’t pronounce ‘virginia’ correctly and it sounded like some other word in the dictionary.

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Here’s a funny one from Korea.

DHL – Kiss

Would you dare to sign your “package” before you find out what’s coming with it now? Or of course, you can always send via UPS.

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