In-depth?? not even close (Score 1)

Your 3rd point made total sense. It can't be any worse when you are stuck with IE to do anything on majority of Korean websites. I give you credit for saying that much.


more than half of the whole population live around Seoul

I'm not sure where you have gotten your figures but simple googling tells me that less than 25% of the whole population is living in Seoul. How far around Seoul are you talking about?


result is that more and more people are just relaxing at on-line rather than outdoors

Again, where do you get this from? if you can call your personal perception as "in-depth", I think you need to look around more. Although what you have said is true to some extent, I see more Koreans finding quite a bit of useful things online. your so called 'weird online communities' do exist, but more have given so many people the power to gather online to extend their thirst for their hobbies, and made it possible for them to go offline with them. So many different types of people being online presenting whatever differences they have... that wouldn't have been possible without the internet at all. Just the speed, amount and ease of everyday information and news presented to Koreans are remarkable. How do you know that people who would have gone out for outdoor activities are lured into being just potato sacs surfing the web? In my opinion, it just gave them more options and information to go even further. And those people not doing anything other than being online would be doing just about same thing even if they didn't have the internet. And being in this less densely populated USofA, how many people do you see that actually scuba dive, go yachting, and wind-surf? How much grasp do you have about the working class of this country? It is not so much about the chances for recreation people have, but rather how they have to make a living. (I know... this is going way off the topic) I just don't get it... how could you be that criticizing with such a narrow vision, criticizing as if nothing good ever came with it. I don't know how you had the chance to come to this country to study, but you are living the better opportunity than that of so many Koreans. And that doesn't give you the right to criticize on how they are living their online lives. You not participating and liking does not make it unuseful. At least have the facts checked before you criticize anything and putting 'in-depth' in the title. Just being a Korean does not qualify!

It pisses me off to see this kind of narrow-minded view is scored 5 for 'insightful.'
Now I have to go blow off some steam playing starcraft over 28.8kbps modem.