Hallyu stars open Turkish hearts

&Ldquo;He is friendly, looks warm, like someone you’ve known for a long time,” enthuses Hulya Mermercan, mother of an 11-year-old boy, when asked what she finds attractive about Song. She has been a fan for five years and she says her husband is supportive of her enthusiasm for Song. “He has Song on his cellphone screen now,” she says with a laugh. “He is helping people around the world. He is a Catholic and I respect his lifestyle,” says Papatya Toyemfi, the fan club president. She will be in Seoul in September for Song’s fan club’s celebration of the actor’s birthday, something she is very excited about. “More than 1,000 fans from around the world have signed up to attend the birthday bash. I am sure he’ll be surprised,” says Toyemfi. Toyemfi will be bringing to Seoul a T-shirt she designed as a present. More importantly, she is planning a two-week trip to Korea in September, something she had never considered before watching her first Korean film, quite by accident. “I have never thought of going to Korea up until six months ago. It would not have made it to the list of my next 50 travels either. Now, it’s my utmost priority to visit there as soon as possible,” she says. The group’s president Yeshim Atish first came into contact with things Korean when she began work at Gaya Restaurant, a Korean restaurant near Taksim Square. “I learned Korean through books and watched Korean dramas during breaks,” says Atish. “I would also ask customers if I was pronouncing words correctly,” she recalls. The 20-year-old who majors in Chinese language at a university says that it is more important to learn about the culture than to just “love an actor.” At the Love Korea Community’s weekly meetings, various aspects of Korean culture are introduced. The leaders of the group scour the Internet for information and share the information about specific topics. The group also offers free Korean-language lessons for its members.  On June 25, the owner of Gaya Restaurant, a 20-year-resident of Turkey, is demonstrating making diced radish kimchi and stuffed cucumber kimchi with two Turkish assistants. The crowd of about 50 ― smaller than usual because school holidays have started and college students have returned to their hometowns ― is busy taking notes on the cellphones, taking pictures or recording the demonstration.

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Hallyu stars open Turkish hearts

Since the founding of the modern Turkish republic in 1923, the Turkish elite has been interested in learning Western languages and cultures. One Korean film led to another, and Yucel soon found herself a fan of films and dramas from Korea.



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SHANGHAI — A year and a half after Google pulled a renouned hunt engine out of mainland China, partly over concerns about censorship, a opposition Microsoft has struck a understanding with a biggest Chinese hunt engine, Baidu.com, to offer Web hunt services in English.

Baidu, formerly essentially a Chinese-language hunt engine, finished a proclamation Monday afternoon, observant Microsoft’s hunt engine, Bing, was approaching to seem on Baidu’s Web pages by a finish of this year.

Baidu, that dominates Chinese-language hunt services here with about 83 percent of a market, has been perplexing for years to urge a English-language hunt services given English searches on a site are as many as 10 million a day, a association said. Now it has a absolute partner.

“More and some-more people here are acid for English terms,” Kaiser Kuo, a company’s spokesman, pronounced Monday. “But Baidu hasn’t finished a good job. So here’s a approach for us to do it.”

Baidu and Microsoft did not divulge terms of a agreement. But a new English-language hunt formula will positively be censored, given Beijing maintains despotic controls over Internet companies and requires those handling on a mainland to bury formula a supervision deems dangerous or troublesome, including references to tellurian rights issues and dissidents.

Microsoft seems to be betting it can get entrance to what is already a world’s largest Internet race of about 470 million users.

Google continues to be accessible on a mainland, yet a hunt engine, that operates in English and Chinese, was changed final year to Hong Kong, where Beijing’s censorship manners do not apply. But lately, Google’s hunt engine and a e-mail service, Gmail, have turn some-more formidable to bond to on a mainland. The company, that is formed in Mountain View, California, has blamed a Chinese supervision for interfering with a operations.

For Microsoft, it could be an opportunity. In a matter expelled Monday, Shen Xiangyang, Microsoft’s comparison tellurian clamp president, said: “Bing’s team-work with Baidu will concede a immeasurable Baidu users to accept improved English hunt practice and results” and concede some-more Chinese users to knowledge Bing.


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