Games, the Contents and the Economy in Korea

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,...

泥中蟠龍 's Game 愛歌 [A love song for games of the dragon waiting for an opportunity]   A break for South Korea's gaming industry   Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) will be held soon. I have kept writing for a newspaper for four years since around the 18th film festival in 2013. But it seems like just yesterday. I'm not trying to show off although I'm somewhat overwhelmed by the long-period time and there were many pleasant memories. Frankly speaking, the opening sentence of the column is nothing short of a struggle to escape from finding a new subject because I simply can't decide what to write about today. This quite often happened for the past four years as the deadline drew near. I used to sit in front of a computer looking at the monitor for a good while with no definite idea.   In this case, I usually try to have my attention drawn away running through a book or playing a video game. I used to find myself begging a subject from ...