"Games, the Contents and the Economy" written by Acean D Park]

이중반룡의 게임애가 泥中蟠龍 's Game 愛歌 [A love song for games of the dragon waiting for an opportunity]   Who is a data monopolist?   August. 29. 2018. I recently read an article in which the Korea Communications Commission has launched policy developments to respond to data monopoly of companies including Google, Facebook, and Amazon etc. It also said that Google has been hit with € 4.34 billion fine by EU regulators for forcing Android device manufacturers to load search engine and browser and KCC let their policy stand in the way of rectifying 'tilted playground' between multinational Internet content providers and local content corporations. I may be a person with a narrow outlook on the issue, but it doesn't give me a satisfactory explanation.   Before anything else, a monopoly exists when a specific person or company is the only supplier of a particular good or service. And an oligopoly is a market in which control over the supply of a commo...

이중반룡의 게임애가 泥中蟠龍 ‘s Game 愛歌 [A love song for games of the dragon waiting for an opportunity] Should keep net neutrality alive? Part 03   August. 15. 2018. I talked about the dictionary definition of net neutrality, the characteristics as public goods, and the problem with zero rating in Part 02. Lastly, I'd like to take a look at why net neutrality should be kept alive.   Let's look back on the past. The telephone companies were heavily against the implementation of mVoIP, mobile Voice over Internet Protocol, in 2012. They insisted that the new service would pull down their profits and deter new investment. Anonymous people, called experts in the media, claimed that the net neutrality repeal will guarantee quality for network service and protect subscribers' interests in the long term. They also said that it is finding balance between the telephone companies and Internet content providers and protecting the rights of users who want better ser...

이중반룡의 게임애가 泥中蟠龍 ‘s Game 愛歌 A love song for games of the dragon waiting for an opportunity   Should keep net neutrality alive? Part 02   August. 01. 2018. I took a look at the dictionary definition of net neutrality and talked about two stances of it in Part 01. There are Internet service providers' position where Internet content providers providing information through network should pay network fees for their users and Internet content providers' position in which net neutrality is the basic right and digital contents industry can be threaten without net neutrality. I'd like to examine the two sides of it in detail.   First, we need to make sure that network is public goods or private property. Do you think network can be replaced with another? We are already living in the world of Internet. Teachers access to the Internet for sending newsletters and bank clients don't go the bank thanks to Internet banking. Living without Internet ...

이중반룡의 게임애가 泥中蟠龍 ‘s Game 愛歌 [A love song for games of the dragon waiting for an opportunity]   Should keep net neutrality alive? Part 01 July. 12. 2018. The Federal Communications Commission repealed net neutrality rules in December 2017. It also has an influence on the net neutrality repeal in South Korea. It's hard for us to express our personal opinion about this issue in many ways. Meeting many different people working in the field of contents industry, I see people around me having the opposite opinion of me. It's not easy for me personally talk about this issue, so I'd like to express my idea in writing hoping that I could convince many people to agree with me.   By definition, net neutrality is as follows:   "Internet service providers and government treat all data on the Internet equally, and not discriminate differently by user, content, platform, type of attached equipment, or method of communication."   N...

이중반룡의 게임애가 泥中蟠龍 ‘s Game 愛歌 [A love song for games of the dragon waiting for an opportunity] Blockchain and right game   June. 28. 2018. I dealt with the subject of the Bechdel test and right game in the last column. I'd like to talk about another meaning of right game this time.   Recently, there's been a lot of talks about blockchain-related subject across the content industry. I also discussed the impact of blcokchain technology on the content industry in a related government agency just hours before writing this article. I have predicted that blockchain will not only change a large part of the content industry but also contribute to developing the content field. I still haven't changed my thought.   However, I think that the recent talks about the new technology is putting the cart before the horse. Blcokchain is literally a technology. It doesn't make anything. Blockchain solution brings up transparent transactions based o...

이중반룡의 게임애가 泥中蟠龍 ‘s Game 愛歌 [A love song for games of the dragon waiting for an opportunity] The Bechdel test and righteous games The Bechdel test   There is the Bechdel test which is a method of evaluating the portrayal of women in fiction. It is first appeared in comic strip of the American cartoonist Alison Bechdel in 1985. And it just needs to satisfy the following requirements:   1. The movie has to have at least two women in it, 2. who talk to each other, 3. about something besides a man.   It's not easy to find films which meet these simple-looking standards. Recently released Korean movies generally fail to meet the requirements. All movies meeting the above criteria don't portray gender equality. However, the fact that just less than half of the movies pass the simple test means that film industry is a largely male-dominated filed. It's more clear when applying the requirements to men and women in reverse.   ...

泥中蟠龍 's Game 愛歌 [A love song for games of the dragon waiting for an opportunity]   The nuclear power generation industry and the video gaming industry   The Shin Kori Nuclear Power Plant Units 5&6 construction is scheduled to begin again soon. Last July, the Moon administration launched an ad-hoc committee to gather public opinion on whether to permanently halt the building of the nuclear reactors while temporarily called off constructing power plants. The committee offered a variety of sources to about 500 "citizen jurors", conducted surveys, hold public hearings over about four months and submitted the final recommendations to the Government. According to the recommendations, 59.5 percent supported a reconstruction with 40.5 percent objecting to the current policy. Also, 53.2 percent recommended to gradually lower reliance on nuclear power from now on.   I believe that stop building the 5&6 plants is desirable. Nuclear fission energy,...