바람이 좋은 날 - 나윤권

바람이 참 좋은 날

나는 너와 함께 걷고 있었다

기억을 따라

오늘 같았던 어느 계절의 바람 속에

이 길을 걷고 있었던 우리

정말 행복했었다

어떤 기억으로 남아 있을까

나는 너에게

바람 좋은 날.. 쓸쓸해진 마음에 부는

너의 기억에 난 기대어 본다

외롭고 지친 마음 마다 함께해 준 너였어

깜깜한 하늘 밤 오직 하나였던 별 처럼

아프고 슬픈 마음 모두 내겐 너였지만

가장 행복했던 순간

이런 눈물이 좋아

입 가에 미소가 번져 흐르는

눈 가의 추억

너를 부른다.. 사랑한단 말은 못해도

그리움으로 널 잊지 않을게

외롭고 지친 마음 마다 함께해 준 너였어

깜깜한 하늘 밤 오직 하나였던 별 처럼

아프고 슬픈 마음 모두 내겐 너였지만 

가장 행복했던 순간

맘 졸이며 기다리다 잠들었고 추억 보다 가까이 있던..

그 이별에 미치도록 아파했던.. 그 때도 난 그랬었지.. 

너와의 기억이 전부일거라고

여전히 난 그런 것 같아.. 이런 날엔 그리워

바람이 추억이 되어 내게 오는 날

여전히 널 외로운 마음 곁에 두고 싶어

한참을 그렇게 너와.. 머문다

I was alone ... and played random song on YouTube. This song was played and I loved it. I did not understand the lyrics at the first time I listened to this song. But somehow ... I liked this song. After knowing the lyrics, it still doesn't have any meaning to me, but yet ... I still like to listen this song.

google it =].

October 3, 2010

앙가

I am a sensitive boy ... I know!!

WSK Stories of the Month - A New Better Way to Make Korean Rice Cake

I love traditional Korean rice cakes (called “tteok”). Some people eat rice cakes in the morning as a grab-and-go breakfast while some others eat them to lose weight as a dietary food. These days, there are so many new kinds of rice cake, made from some unusual ingredients with new techniques.

I’d say the most appealing thing about rice cake is its texture, its soft chewiness. And thus, one of the most baffling things about tteok is that they lose its signature chewiness so fast. You buy some nice chunks of tteok in the evening on your way home from work, and the next morning you find them gone all hard and dry. Hard and dry, that’s not rice cake anymore. I bet you all have this sad experience.

And here is some good news for you! A new technique has been developed that can make tteok that preserves its chewiness for a long, long time.

No more hardened rice cake

Korea’s Rural Development Administration (RDA) developed a manufacture technique that prevents rice cake from going hard and dry. With this new recipe that involves no chemical processing or additive whatsoever, you can now enjoy the soft chewiness of rice cake for a long, long time. They call it “miracle” rice cakes since if you store them in the fridge, once defrozen they will restore their original chewy texture but completely.

  Korea’s Rural Development Administration (RDA).

RDA developed a manufacture technique that prevents rice cake from going hard and dry.>

According to RDA, the soft, moist, chewy texture comes from beating rice cake a numerous number of times which produces microscopic, elaborate structures within. And RDA managed to convert this beating into an exacting, scientific process.

In Korea, rice cake is a “must” item at special feasts like holidays, birthdays, kick-off ceremonies etc. And since rice cakes turn hard and dry so easily, tteok manufactures, when there is a large order, have to wake up at the break of dawn and start making rice cake right on the day it’s needed; they can’t do it earlier. That sure is a tough labor. Also, rice cake’s poor durability and difficult storage has been detaining vitalization of the tteok industry. But now with the new technique, things will start looking up, including increased rice consumption. 

Time for rice cake to go global

Now that we’re striving for globalization of Korean food, rice cake can be one of the key items, especially with the new technique. Compared to bread, rice cake is healthier, more digestible, and can fill up your stomach. With the new technique, RDA announced that they’re expecting to generate1.3 trillion won worth of economic value. They plan to get the technique (which they named “cool tteok recipe”) patented soon and start putting it to practical use.

Let’s look forward to days when rice cake will be more popular than bread!

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                                                                                                                 ⓒ코리아브랜드

PS: This article is taken from the WSK Newsletter #27. As one of the members of WSK, I have been given task to share this article through my blog.

-- been busy these days ㅠㅠ listening to 나윤권 - 바람이 좋은 날

WSK Stories of the Month - Korea’s Online Procurement System Going Abroad

The Public Procurement Service (PPS) is one of Korea’s central administrative bodies that provides public institutions with materials, facilities and services from supplying companies that they need. With the rapid spread of the Internet and Korea’s advanced level of Information Technology, the nation’s procurement system, also, is going online. Furthermore, a growing number of developing countries where issues of budget waste, lack of transparency and corruption are considerable are trying to import! and benchmark Korea’s online e-procurement system.

Procurement officials overseas visit Korea to learn

Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) conducted a training program “Public Procurement System Establishment” for 18 participants from 8 countries including Uzbekistan, Egypt, Morocco, Ghana, Tunisia, Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire, and Uganda. From September 2 to 18, the participating officials took various courses on the strategy for establishing the e-Government and e-Procurement system.

Costa Rica imports Korea’s e-procurement system

Costa Rica’s e-procurement system which opened in July 2009 was constructed by Samsung SDS for USD 8.3 million. Recently, a total of 9 systems were launched including the electronic bidding, security/authentication, electronic contracts, electronic payments, electronic documents, document distribution and others. Samsung will support the operation until December and then transfer the controls over to ICE (Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad). 

  

With the introduction of the system, the Costa Rican government will be able to operate efficiently through integration, standardization of procurements. Also, it is expected to contribute to the transparency of procurement and the efficiency of the bidding companies.

Laura Chinchilla, President of Costa Rica said, “I am very pleased because the e-procurement system improves the efficiency of public institutions and provides high-quality services of government agencies; it provides equal benefits to all the citizens.” She also thanked South Korea’s embassies and Samsung SDS for their efforts in making the successful launch.

Through the project to spread Korean online procurement system to foreign countries, Korea’s software and IT consulting companies are accumulating their know-how on overseas projects and improving their international competitiveness. Also, efforts are being made to make the Korean e-procurement system a global standard.

Not so many people are aware Korea has an advanced procurement system like this. Promoting it to the world must surely be a way to raise Korea’s brand value!

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                                                                                                                  ⓒ 코리아브랜드

PS: This article is taken from the WSK Newsletter #27. As one of the members of WSK, I have been given task to share this article through my blog.