Fwd: TEDxSeoul and domestic TEDx phenomenon in South Korea
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Hanseok Ryu
From: Hanseok Ryu <hans...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:04 PM
Subject: TEDxSeoul and domestic TEDx phenomenon in South Korea
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@jeannie_ju: #TEDxSeoul Every time I come to TEDxSeoul, there’s at least one talk that makes me find myself crying. Today it was Hyesin’s speech.
@plusle_: The talks I heard at TEDxSeoul tonight, it gave me the happiest moment in this year. Deep appreciation for all the volunteers and organizers who made it happened!
@SuhyungYoo: I’ve been to TEDxSeoul yesterday. Realized why people just go crazy about TED. It was about communication. People were sharing their feelings. Rare chance that doesn’t come for easy. Don’t miss the next one in 2011! :)
@belstudi0 Watched TEDxSeoul talks on screen in literature class in my school. Haha. Maybe all students already know it.
@freestyle_0402: I’m getting the same messages here and there recently. TEDxSeoul is changing my life. I used to think that I have to be a better person first to help others, but it says it’s not. It’s telling me that it is all small things that actually make change.
@theSOPP: I haven’t expected anything about today’s TEDxSeoul. I didn’t even take a look at the website or leaflet. But it turned out great. I found stories are directly related to my life. Most of all, the last story about Pastor Lee was really hard for me to keep myself from crying.
@gl2u: @TEDxSeoul It was such a great time full of laughs and tears. Thank you a big time for all organizers. I got tons to think about. Now I feel way clearer in my head. Thank you!
@mindjj: I didn’t expect 18 minute presentation would take so much energy like this. What felt different from just watching talks online was the vibration and the energy that filled the space. The reaction from audience was almost healing people!
@limonar: TEDxSeoul happened again. Such a great feeling to watch such a spark of inspiration! What am I doing here!? Gotta do something!
@AnwarKing: @TEDxSeoul was Awesome... Loved every moment there... Congrats for the organizers & Volunteers...Glad to meet great inspiring speakers...
Whoa! What a reaction!
The first TEDxSeoul event had taken place on 28th November last year. And it was exactly 365th day that we had the last one on last 27th November.
Can’t believe how far we’ve
gotten during this one year. It has been a blast for every single organizer at the team TEDxSeoul.
It took 91 minutes for 350 seats to get
sold out in the inaugural event last year. The second took 16 minutes in this July.
And in the last one we had two days ago, it took just about 2 minute 30
seconds, having 700+ unique viewers with 346 viewer hours recorded during the
web-cast. TEDxSeoul has gotten 13,000th follower in Twitter and won the Best Non-Profit Website Award in Korea
Digital Media Award 2010.
Meanwhile in South Korea, the waves of 48 TEDx
events have been sweeping through the country. The population in South Korea is 48 and it means that every million people got one TEDx event each. It is almost domestic phenomenon
in such a small country like South Korea and this fever becomes obvious when you
see that 27 times bigger China and 2.5 times bigger Japan had just 37 and 13
events each in the same period of time.
There’s already signs of change we see in
huge hierarchical, bureaucratic conglomerate like Samsung($129.6bn) and LG($78bn)
that dominates 25% of total GDP($833bn) of South Korea.
South Korea has taken the first place in the translation chart with more than 90 TEDtalks translated just in one month, followed by Romania’s 59 talks on its second place. There are only 6 talks available in TED.com which that are not yet taken to be translated and this means that you can’t even participate to make contribution if you don’t hurry!
It feels like we’re just around the tipping point and I don’t really know where it will take us to in the next year! We’re already thrilled!
Now its time for TED, and time for change.
Thank you TED and TEDx for letting us have such great experience!
P.S. on't forget to check out the opening sequence we put together for TEDxSeoul: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-pI5rrIbg4
Hanseok Ryu
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