I was going over the Korean newspapers last week and found an interesting article about the Second Life. Like some of laggers, I am not really familiar with using Facebook or myspace(I do use messangers and cyworld.com though.. which is kinda like myspace I guess), especially internet games like Second Life, Sims, Warcrafts, Lineage and so on before taking this class. And it was kind of a surprise for me to find out that the Second Life is actually becoming not only a new investment tool but it's also gradually starting to gain some sort of political impact on our real world.

The news reports :to celebrate the inauguration of the new U.S president Obama, a virtual Korean community within Second Life(www.joywindkorea.com) held a special event on January 22nd. The event lasted for an hour and about 100 users around the world were reported to be participated in this event. On top of a virtual inauguration, Joywind specially designed the smaller version of the house in Indonesia where the new president spent his childhood at ceremony to congratulate this historic event. The ceremony included different countries flags flying and the Korea's president Lee's avatar, which was created by a private nongovernmental cyber-culture organization, also joined the ceremony to give a short speech.