Ask Engadget: What's the best gadgetry South Korea has to offer?
By Paul Miller 
posted October 26th 2007 6:33PM
posted October 26th 2007 6:33PM
Last week's question about HDTV opinions was a bit loaded, so we're going to take it down a notch for this week's Ask Engadget. Of course, there's always room for controversy next week, so be sure to send in your questions to ask at engadget dawt com. This week's feel-good query comes from Chad:"As any reader of Engadget knows, the coolest stuff tends to always be stuck in Korea (or somewhere equally far away from Chicago). Luck has it though that I am going on assignment to Seoul in a few weeks and I was wondering... If given the chance to go to the Gadget Holy Land (Korea), what would you pick up? Also, if there are any Koreans reading this, where in / near Seoul should I go to procure these gadgets?"
Chad seems to have an enviable dilemma. With the endless quantity of South Korean gadgetry that's paraded across this site in recent years, anything particularly choice stick out? We're kind of partial to those 7-inch DMB / GPS / PMP units that transform into police bots at night and fight crime in the city streets, but that's just us.
Is that offer still open, Jin Kim?
WoW , that Korean troll Math geek has so many names on this blog such as smellychingchong, Japa and republic of cheats. Is that what most of Korean netizens spend their time doing ? Talk bad about China and try to associate themselves with Japan/Japanese. Readers here can notice that how the Koreans here always bring the word Japan next to Korea and how classy they are compared to the Japanese. What they quickly forgot is the "anti-Korean wave" that happened in Japan not long ago.
If anyone here is old enough and travel, that person should be able to remember that a pair of knockoff Nike shoes could be easily bought on the streets of Seoul in the 70s and 80s.
Sad Koreans, they are hated in Japan and Japanese but still suck up and try to associate themselves to Japan and Japanese.
And they quickly forgot the fact that their country was once a heaven of knockoffs.