What does a computer programmer do when he goes home? Perhaps, being the geeky sort, he goes home and plants himself in front of the computer monitor and starts playing online games. Or maybe he dons his spats, Cuban heels and heads down to his local dancehall for some fastpaced swing dancing. That is certainly the case for Lee Jin-hoon, 32, a computer programmer for Solbrain, and one of Korea's top amateur swing dancers. It seems that you certainly could not make up Lee's story. After a ... [2008-10-13]

  Giving up a promising career in software programming to become a rock musician is the stuff of Tuesday 3pm daydreams for most normal people. Nobody ever expects such outlandish ideas to ever actually manifest themselves. Which makes the story of Choi Gwang-min, 38, all the more incredible. As a keen student at university in Seoul, Choi had always excelled in his academic work. He acquired a deep knowledge of hardware, databases, circuitry and computer programming, making him a technologic... [2008-09-09]

  "This is a man's World" crooned James Brown in the words of the eponymous song. It is a lyric which once may have rung true in the world of IT and especially so in Korea. Not long ago, technology still meant little more than programming code and functional little black boxes that allowed us to do things like ring each other while we were on the bus or listen to music while we were jogging. Now IT is a multi-billion dollar industry, and technology companies are one of the biggest employers... [2008-08-08]