Korean Welcome area - city sim

A new (Brian)Linden build Korean welcome area/city sim just opened.
looks pretty cool, have been taking pictures for the last hour.
A little bit jealous that my first experience in SL didn't look this good.


I almost think that it was opened by accident, or maybe it is a secret tryout to see what we think.

More snaps.
http://www.sluniverse.com/pics/ViewAlbum.aspx?id=468

I've been there! I make it a point to visit new places when I see 'em on the map. It's really nice. Unfortunately, I don't speak Korean so some of the writing is lost to me.

I'm just curious if this build is how a city in Korea looks or just came from the imagination.

Heh, if thats the case I wanna see sims based on other places I will probably never get to visit!

I flied over that area a few days ago when i saw it on the map

Meanins probably Second Life will be marketed in one of the biggest gamer markets, Korea.

Probably. The plans for special marketing activities and localized WAs for (South) Korea, Japan and Germany are more than half a year old.

There even have been RFPs/competitions for these Welcome Areas if I remember it right. And I visited a set of German sims in the Autumn of 2005. But sometime before Christmas it became very quiet about these projects. I wonder, what happpened.

i visited that tonight. two thumbs up. the urban area is very nicely modelled and textured. there is villa on the mountain with a lookout to the city. i wonder how much rent will be for that!

The German sims also disappeared from the map... I know I asked for them..

I will of course take a look later today - it looks super!!

IF we a day in 2058 - will get a Swedish welcome area it prob will look like this.. )) BUT if I decide it will be a little red house with white frames around the windows and a forrest around and no mosquitos..

/Tina

Well The japan version seemed to fall by the wasteside. It sort of tried to PR it, but like most otehr western things in Japan its just trend with not much long life stibility of people ( real) japanese playing it.

I understand Korea and other countries have cybercafes where people often game, huge ones, as well as gamers at home.

I am totally open to foreign people playing Second Life, even though I think it should be marketed at home first, and then expand internationally. But what do we do when all these people come in speaking languages we do not understand, will LL implement some translation software into the interface like some MMRPGs have?

Det handlar ju som vanligt om en vilja att vilja få kontakt och bli förståd - eller hur?..


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Its always the same al around the world.. the ones that want contact get it.. and IF you want to ustand people you do it...IF not you never will widen your life and experiences...

GO FOR IT.. let more people in.. and we will learn from each other.. prob a day get a better world to (irl).. BUT let the churches, the military and politicans stay out)

/Tina

I think the best thing about Second Life is its international aspect.

Think of the opportunity it gives you to learn about other cultures than the American one.

I agree with Selardoor ... and who knows ? with time we could even finaly manage to civilize americans

learnign about cultures is what makes sl great. theis korean sim should be alot better in the terms population then the japanese one or real peopel fromthe coutry using it since they have more online games players then japan does...

Are we going to get Far East English slogans, like "Samsung means to come"?

Do you remember seeing this in the German sims... It was beautiful. What a waste if it won't be used for anything. And nice work J-Wu and Nicola. The sim below is called Frisch.

I know one thing...it makes the mainland look pitiful by comparison.

It would be nice if there was some type of organization to the mainland. It looks so chaotic. More roads alone would go a long way toward giving the mainland a more pleasing look. I know we can build roads ourselves, but with so many different owners on the mainland, how can you build consensus to build roads?

I still think LL should have released the mainland with built in roads that could be removed and/or restored by prospective land owners. Like this, even if some owners were to have removed them, there would still be a built-in and persistant infracstructure.

Looks great, Ingrid! But, alas, I have never seen it. I only visited on the bare sims the day they opened, and when I tried to go there again, they were gone. I have not given up hope, to see them once again on the grid.

I just wish, it would be that not only those sims do appear but a localized client and some local language support, too. Young Germans know English these days but to say that they are fluent in or comfortable with the language would be a gross exaggeration.

I am not sure, if builds like these will attract german residents ... There has been some discussion on the forums last autumn losely based on the question "what looks German to the world and what would attract Germans to live there?" (where "German" can be substituted for any other nation/culture).

No question, that this build is great, though. I would have no probs at all with setting my home in the surroundings - even though it feels nice on Verloren now, which is inspired by another famous German (actually Bavarian) castle.

I wish the Lindens would bring those sims back online... been pestering the german Liaisons but they didn't know anything. It would be such a shame if this great work wasn't used - I've only seen snapshots so far, but wow, a realistic! historically accurate! castle ruin!!! <3

A bit off topic, I wonder that the general expectation is that Koreans will want to build in Korean-themed sims et cetera for other culturally-themed areas. Personally, I'd rather build, work, live in a theme other than the one I experience in real life every day.

On topic, the city build looks fabulous and is fun to wander through. Does anyone know if the shop spaces are going to be rentable, or what will be done with the land between the roads?

Why Duke boy U-turns of course!

I pulled out my avalon go-go vehicle on some land that Don Linden (?) left buildable in the SW Korean region. I had the darndest time getting up onto one of the streets. The streets are so narrow I had to use quite a bit of those lands between the roads just to maneuver.

”The sim below is called Frisch.”

---and not ”find” at search at the map...

/Tina

Could we even get a North Pole Sim? Like with eskimos & igloos & penguins??

At worst, Disney would open up a SL Disney. Imagine all the lil' prim kids singing "its a small world after all..." Ok, lets not think about it.

If you are looking for a totally realistic diffrent culture experience I reccomend you visit the Dublin sim, a faithfull recreation of the better parts of Dublins fair city. be sure to visit the Blarney Stone Pub the friendliest bunch of people in SL and the Guiness Brewery with 3 assembly lines that rival if not exceed the Prim Rig in ANWR.

The Lindens took it offline for some reason months ago.

Whoa, I thought they have pulled the plug on the Korean market. I heard that there was no volunteer builders from Korea, which made LL desperate enough to ask one of the Japanese players who can speak Korean for help. I would guess that's probably why a Linden built the WA. It's looking soooo good I'm jealous!

As for the Japanese sims, my friends and I worked our arses off last summer to help build stuff that would make new Resident feel at home, like Onsen Ryokan (inn with spa) and Terakoya (tutorial library), and yes, it was free labour as usual. But hrm... honestly our builds don't look as good as Brian's. Damn, most of us were a bunch of noobs back then! I wish the Lindens at least inform us before they open the sims so that we can update our stuff :3

Some of the non-Japanese veterans helped build too, and their builds do look great. Sadly though, all the builds there have been collecting virtual dust for 8 months. The six sims are still invisible/inaccessible to people who don't belong to the project group, though I hear there's a workaround to get in, according to the Virtual Suburbia blog.



Usagi, I don't know if you are a Japanese as you imply in your profile (東京都東京23区 is a bit unnatural IMO) but there ARE a lot of Japanese Residents, including me, who actually speak Japanese and live in Japan, and the number is literally multiplying lately.

We have already learnt that we can't be counting on LL and have been working on our own to help new Residents. We are in the middle of building tutorial wiki (http://secondlife-wiki.main.jp/), and Anshe has been doing what LL should be doing, providing two dedicated sims for the Japanese community. Lately a lot of new Residents read the wiki or some other blogs and come to Anshe's Togenkyo sim to get help in Japanese. So yeah, it's a makeshift Japanese WA now.