Korean Job Discussion Forums

[pkang0202]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/world/asia/28seoul.html

[bacasper]

Did the winner use a cellphone with a fold-out complete keyboard or one of those where you must tap 2 or 3 times for each letter?

Presumably this was in Hangul and not English, right?

[pkang0202]

I think it was a foldout keyboard for the US competition. All competitors were given the same phone weeks before to be fair.

You could text whatever language, but the organizers made sure that the same number of characters are used, despite the language you pick. the contestants typed in Korea, obviously.

2nd place team were Americans typing in English.

[Reggie]

I would've come in last place. I've never sent a text and would've spent the whole time trying to figure out how.

[Toju]

She attends my friends high school - he teaches her.

When she won the local competition she also won first class flights to the final in the US. And the phone that she was using in the competition.

In the US all the different nationalities typed in their own language and I think that all who attended were given their competition phones.

She won 20 million here and split $100,000 in the US.

She is about to start the second grade of high school - with a nice chunk of cash in the bank too!

[jvalmer]

I chose the wrong career. Win a couple of those competitions, you'd have a nice head start financially.

[Hater Depot]

I always found texting in Korean to be faster than English. Now that I live in America I never text at all because it's so damn expensive - 25 cents a message for something that costs the company a tenth of a cent! It's unconscionable.

[Konglishman]

[jvalmer]

One thing that annoys me is that there is no standard layout for Korean characters on the cellphone. If you get a new phone, good chance some of the characters are on different keys.

[Kuros]

[JMO]

I'm a very fast texter, mainly because i had my first cell phone in the short window before predictive text became standard. However even with my limited korean i am almost as fast in korean. I think with practice i could be way faster. Seems like an advantage to me.

[pkang0202]

Depends on the keyboard.

If its a normal cell phone keyboard then of course Korean is faster. You dont' gotta press each button 2-3 times to get the letter you want.

On a qwerty, I'm waaaaay faster typing in English than Korean. And in the competition, they were given qwerty keyboard phones.

I would like to meet the native speaker English speaker, who can type in Korean FASTER and MORE ACCURATE (no mistakes) than in English on a QWERTY keyboard.

[mistermasan]

hopefully some hawaiian kid with their "world's shortest alphabet" has lights going off in his head.