China has about 450 million Internet users: thought we should all take a moment and contemplate how this would affect the Internet — design and production.
For a better perspective, I decided to visit some Chinese Web Sites. So I went to www.uni.edu/becker/chinese2.html. Viewing most of these sites made me feel very reassured I could do the job. I figure I have the experience and design skills to produce a Chinese restaurant menu any day, right? Then I remembered, somewhere, sometime I’d heard that the Chinese go crazy for any and everything Korean. OK, let’s check out some cool Korean Web Sites (listed below). They do come off pretty “modern.”
My summation is: Great and inspiring artistic design is, always has been, always will be universal and culturally transcendent. Seems like the childish anime art dominates the tastes of the young Koreans (I’m starting to get into it, really). Remember the last Olympics in China? The great Chinese Art Director Zhang Yimou designed the unbelievably fantastic opening where a “digital” scroll was lowered and became a stage onto which “dancers” painted beautiful Chinese calligraphy on a lighted floor. Wow! Imagine requesting a Web Site from this great master? Wonder what it would look like?
Wait! the Chinese government is still communist! Can a government end up controlling the Internet? I suspect that would be determined by the stronghold the government has on the media of its country. China is a communist government and I think they have and, for the most part, try to censor Internet information coming in from the West. For sure, North Korea, is definitely a “dead zone” for most citizens of the world. They completely control all communications their people can get to. I believe the North Korean government has even rewritten their history. Has that happen anywhere around here?. Maybe huge world wide corporate conglomerates could probably get control of the Internet. Do you doubt it? Check out CNN once in a while, it’s really changed, huh?
Internet World Stats: Usage and Population Statistics:
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats17.htm
Best Chinese Websites:
http://www.uni.edu/becker/chinese2.html
KoreanCrunch — Korean Top 20 Web Sites:
http://www.naver.com/
http://me.sayclub.com/
http://www.buddybuddy.co.kr/
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