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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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 Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 3:56 pm Post subject: Odd logo to copy |
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Koreans copy a lot. Why come up with your own design, name, or logo when you can just copy some product packaging of a successful product.
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But today CNN had a big thingy about a new World Stem Cell Hub in Seoul. Excellent stuff of course, world class science, evidence there's some creativity going on here. But then I notice their logo (SC) bears more than a passing resemblance to another SC logo, the Standard Chartered logo.
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bosintang
Joined: 01 Dec 2003
Location: In the pot with the rest of the mutts
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 4:15 pm Post subject: |
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How about this one?
Oh wait a minute that's the foreigners in Korea...silly me.  |
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steroidmaximus
Joined: 27 Jan 2003
Location: GangWon-Do
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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the grocery store is a morass of imitation. . .I'm not as keen as mindmetoo so I won't post pics, but next time look in the juice section (lotte juice), the sauces (A1, heinz knock offs), and at the coffee for starters.
Serious lawsuit material
I remember the first stereotype I ever heard about Koreans: great imitators, poor at innovation. I'd question the first bit as far as food is concerned after trying some of their offerings. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 4:54 pm Post subject: |
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I spent 9 months working at a bushie bahn in Taiwan. The owner, Steven, had worked at another bushie bahn before opening his own. He stole the office layout, logo, color of logo and the teaching strategy (TPR).
He ended up in the pokey the week after I left. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 4:57 pm Post subject: |
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| steroidmaximus wrote: |
the grocery store is a morass of imitation. . .I'm not as keen as mindmetoo so I won't post pics, but next time look in the juice section (lotte juice), the sauces (A1, heinz knock offs), and at the coffee for starters.
Serious lawsuit material
I remember the first stereotype I ever heard about Koreans: great imitators, poor at innovation. I'd question the first bit as far as food is concerned after trying some of their offerings. |
Now that I think of it, a walk through a dollar store in North America too tends to be a treasure trove of IP lawsuits. I remember there being this weird "Pride of the Third World" line of cleaning products. Everything was a near copy of some better known brand names like Comet or Windex. The stuff never actually cleaned, although the price was pretty good... |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 10:36 pm Post subject: |
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| bosintang wrote: |
How about this one?
Oh wait a minute that's the foreigners in Korea...silly me. |
In pulverising you will conquer? |
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jinglejangle
Joined: 19 Feb 2005
Location: Far far far away.
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:14 am Post subject: |
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I spent 9 months working at a bushie bahn in Taiwan. The owner, Steven, had worked at another bushie bahn before opening his own. He stole the office layout, logo, color of logo and the teaching strategy (TPR).
He ended up in the pokey the week after I left. |
Bushie Bahn? |
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fatpat
Joined: 05 Oct 2005
Location: The bright lights of Namchang
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 1:31 am Post subject: |
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Serious lawsuit material indeed. Has anyone else noticed the big name department stores awash with copied brand name clothing? Or the underground shopping malls? Dodgy market knock offs I can understand, but to sell pirate goods from a fixed address?
Also, my school textbook has a section about a trip to the cinema, complete with Movie poster for "Harry Better and the Philosophers Stone"
with a copied Jpeg off the net, all pixelly and crap.
No brand can actually have any prestige left in Korea because everyone and his dad can wear designer gear for the price of a 'Harry Better' ticket. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 2:13 am Post subject: |
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No this is not George Bush driving in Germany.
I thought in the context, it was clear that 'bushie bahn' is my way of spelling the Taiwanese equivalent of a hakwon. Looking back, maybe it wasn't as clear as I thought it was. Sorry. |
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steroidmaximus
Joined: 27 Jan 2003
Location: GangWon-Do
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 4:41 am Post subject: |
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| Now that I think of it, a walk through a dollar store in North America too tends to be a treasure trove of IP lawsuits. I remember there being this weird "Pride of the Third World" line of cleaning products. Everything was a near copy of some better known brand names like Comet or Windex. The stuff never actually cleaned, although the price was pretty good... |
there's a difference between some cheap company trying to make a quick buck by saving money in the design department and a large multinational conglomerate selling 'top notch' products under the same premise.
anyhoo, if it was called 'pride of the 3rd world', I woulda snapped that up in a second. . . |
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rnrpaulsen
Joined: 20 Jun 2005
Location: Cheongju, South Korea
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In Itaewon we saw a store called Yahoo, that had exactly the same font and configuration of the online company's logo, but sold knock-off bags and purses.
In downtown Cheongju, there's a store called Roots Canada (a major Canadian clothing/accessory brand name) that sells cheap "subway station" shoes and socks. So weird. |
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