Engliphone English level test review

Engliphone English level test review

2013/01/14

Engliphone Website : http://engliphone.co.kr

Because director in my company recommanded me to improve English skill and get better grade in TOEIC Speaking, I decided to register online English learning service using phone or computer network. 

Before taking English level test, frankly speaking, I had a nickname, Hwayoung, which is nickname in my English/Korean SER(Social Enterprise Review)blog. But many of my foreign friends said this nickname is more like Chinese than English. So during English level test, I requested her to recommand suitable English nickname for me. My new English nickname became Yesmine.

Equivocally I knew my weakness in my English skill already because I really fed up with Korean-style SAT English. I always thought practice is better than theory, especially for learning language. I know lots of grammar via SAT English, but apply grammar in practical English is not easy for me.

For me, to read a good book or news article written in English is needed. Reading article in English blog by English natives may be helpful. 

Currently I don't have headphone for my computer so I plan to participate in regular English online class later. Hope it will be a good experience.

Thanks for reading.

Social Enterprise blogger/reviewer Hwayoung ( http://serblog.kr )

Enjoy Korean indy music in internet, blayer review

Before introducing this service, blayer( http://blayer.co.kr/ ), you need to understand Korean's unfair sound source distribution structure.

http://www.hani.co.kr/arti/culture/music/554373.html

Sorry for Korean's news article. The content of this news clearly represents Korean's unfair music distribution structure. Psy (one of the Korean popular singer, his famous song is Gangnam-style) earned 36 million won to sell digital sound source in Korea, the news said, this is similar to $36 thousands in US dollar. This is very few earnings compared to other worldwide singers who earns more than $10 billion. The news says if one person download one digital sound source, singer of that music earns only 1.2 penny!!! This is very unfair compared to other foreign digital sound source services, which offers more than 1 dollar per one download.

Then, you can imagine how much indy singers, who isn't famous compared to pop singers, suffers because of unfair little income. Company cyrus and blayer music service is built to offer fair service via fair digital sound source distribution. They distributes 70% of their income through digital sound source download. Because of this, cyrus can become social enterprise in Korea.

Then, How can we use their service?

Currently blayer does not offer English web service, So you should carefully understand the process of their website.

You can listen music for free to visit blayer site, but if you download their music, you should pay. Price is usually from 1000 won to 2000 won, about $1-2 US dollar.

If you visit blayer website ( http://blayer.co.kr/ ), you can see screen like this in below.

To listen music, you should click '앨범'(Album) or '차트'(Chart)

In the menu, clicking '전체재생' button, you can hear whole music in the list. this service is offered even without log-in or getting membership.

But if you want to select music and listen music what you want, membership is required.

If you succeeded to listen music, The menu in left below will be changed. This menu substitute music player, so you can listen music without installing additional programs.

Sadly, pay cash to download music for foreigners will be almost impossible. Above all, thier electronic payment system is only available via Korean credit card. If you don't want to pay using credit card, you should have mobile phone which is registered in Korean wireless operator.

But for foreigners, to register membership is possible. I will show the method later via web video.

I am considering to change blog site

I am considering to change blog site.

Long time no see. For a long time, I've been managed Korean blog regularly but in this blog, I didn't.

The more my Korean blog grows, I realize that I need to change my website URL.

I think my current English blog URL is not suitable to represent my blog's contents(related to Social Enterprise)

Before creating new blog, I will read article and book about English blogging.

After opening new blog, I will announce it in this blog.

I found creating new blog to change website URL is not necessary.

So I will manage this blog without any additional changes.

Brief summary on Korean social enterprise support symposium

I couldn't participate in person in Korean social enterprise support symposium because of company work (My company is not social enterprise.)

Relay base is in here. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/%EC%82%AC%ED%9A%8C%EC%A0%81%EA%B8%B0%EC%97%85 In this relay base link, people speaks Korean.



This is the brief summary on this.

1. In future, Social economy organizations will prosper including social enterprises, non-profit organizations and cooperative.
2. Korean government's social enterprise support policy should be changed. In present they often supports employment, but their final goal should be social innovation and persuit of social value. So the system to measure social innovation and social value is needed. And government should support company who try to accomplish social innovation.
3. Korean government should support activity to create social ecology.
4. Innovation cluster should be adopted in social enterprise.
5. Korean government should support social enterprise fits on their stage of development. They should expand indirect support.
6. Innovative social enterpriser is needed.

I thought my blog's direction should changed. In my opinion, I should expand the target to review social economy organizations, not only social enterprises.

Portalsite Daum offers quick link service on Korean social enterprises

Daum ( http://www.daum.net/ ) offers quick link service on Korean social enterprises.

I think this will be helpful to advertise social enterprises.

I experienced it works for Korean social enterprises. But for foreign social enterprises, it doesn't worked except the company with overseas expension to Korea.

I disappointed most on their service because it doesn't work for relatively unknown Korean social enterprises. I think unknown social enterprises will desperate needy for this services than well-known social enterprises. Because for well-known social enterprises, there are a lot of accurate informations in many ways. But for unknown social enterprises, there are not many informations except their official homepages. And searching their official homepages are often hard.

So I suggested Daum to offer their service for unknown Korean social enterprises. They responded that they will consider it.

Little farmers bag review

I bought a bag in Little farmers.

Little farmers is a social enterprise who manufactures bags and shoes using eco-friendly material in eco-friendly process.

Quality of this bag was sufficient. Problem was the price. My sister also agreed this bag is expensive.

This bag was 158000 Korean won.

Dokdo is the Korean territory, Dokdo cookie review

I bought Dokdo cookie in 2012 Social Enterprise exhibition.

I'd like to gather information related to Dokdo cookie so I tried to go to the official homepage of Dokdo cookie. But in present its homepage doesn't work.



In Japan, Japanese are advertising that Takeshima(dokdo) is Japan's territory to sell Takeshima cookie. In order to correspond this, to advertise Dokdo is Korean territory founders built a Dokdo cookie company. R20(Represent 20 : Volunteer's union) said Dokdo cookie company sells cookie cheaper and uses natural ingredients. I'd like to check it but gave up because of lack of Japanese language skill.

If you buy Dokdo cookie, 2/3 of their expense are spend in Activity groups related to Korean Dokdo.

This is summary of Dokdo cookie story.



But, I'd like to focus whether it is delicious or not. I ate it with Social Enterpriser forum people.

Frankly speak, the taste of dokdo cookie was commonplace without suger and antiseptic taste. It would be positive for health, but no more special thing.

Dokdo cookie is hard to buy in off-line. In online, You can buy dokdo cookie in its official homepage, but the homepage doesn't work now.

I hope their homepage will work soon.