Page 1 of 1
Any One Read Japanese/Chinese? Or is it Korean?
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 2:51 am
by MSimon
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 3:45 am
by scareduck
That's Korean.
Looks like a rehash of the keepalive stuff we saw earlier.
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 3:48 am
by JohnP
yes, Korean.
fiddling with babelfish:
below 'A--Polywell Fusion Device Research' it says:
Summary information
On the header with the picture of the lady on the phone, next to where it says 'HOME>' :
International market supply information > International tender information retrieval
Just above the main article it says (in green print):
Notification contents
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 4:02 am
by MSimon
I hope the Koreans start an IEC program. I have a friend who talked to a Korean Ambassador about it - 3 to 6 months ago IIRC. AFAIK it didn't go anywhere.
I just gave him a heads up. I'll let you know if he has anything interesting to say.
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 6:54 am
by choff
Isn't there a Korean-American physicist on the emc2 staff, Dr. Park?
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 8:36 am
by MSimon
Dr. Park is on the staff. He is the mainstay of the experimental side.
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 10:37 pm
by OneWayTraffic
I have a Korean wife here, but this doesn't look like worth her time to translate. It very much seems to be a simple advertisement for services.
As an aside, the Korean alphabet is very easy to learn. A linguist could do it in an afternoon, though it took me a couple of weeks. There's 20 odd main symbols- with another 20-30 variations, arranged into 1 syllable blocks. It's as logical as computer programming. Benefit of having an alphabet that was specifically designed for the language a few centuries ago by a Korean king and his team of scholars. Literacy rates here in Korea are practically 100%.
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 7:10 am
by choff
From the posts I've seen Korea has a very robust fusion research program relative to its size, both IEC and tokamak.