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PSA: PlayStation Store returns to South Korean PS3s May 16
After being taken offline last July, the PlayStation Store will finally reopen for business on South Korean PlayStation 3 units on Thursday, May 16. The service was originally removed to comply with new South Korean legislation that made it illegal for persons under the age of 18 to verify online a...
World Sand Sculpting Championship holds special surprise for Sony fans
Sony took some time to promote the PS3 and PSP at Korea's first annual Invitational World Sand Sculpting Championship. We're impressed by how the sand PS3 simply towers over these Asian girls. As we ponder the incredible manpower used to create these massive sand recreations, we can't help but thi...
Sony provides earthquake relief with autographed swag
There was an earthquake in Sichuan recently -- a pretty bad one. Corporations and individual people have been taking care of donations, including Sony Computer Entertainment Hong Kong. They have put together some eBay auctions for autographed PlayStation paraphernalia. All proceeds go to World Visio...
Sony kiosks hit Korean theater, bank
When Nintendo put Wii kiosks outside in the cold of a London winter , we thought it was a little nutty. When Sony put a PS2 in the lobby of the England National Symphony, we thought things couldn't get weirder. Well, those crazy foreigners are at it again. This time it's Sony Korea setting up PS2...
Korean home shopping channel sells out of PS3's in 3 minutes
While the launch of Sony's PlayStation 3 in Korea has gotten a lot more blog-time here than you'd expect, it's because of the surprisingly different model they are receiving. An 80GB hard drive, downloadable content and video on demand support (TV shows, etc), lack of the Emotion Engine chip for emu...
Sony Korea plots a June launch
You thought the PS3 was done launching, didn't you? You'd be wrong ... dead wrong. Or at least breathing heavily at the announcement that Sony plans to launch their PlayStation 3 in Korea this June. That's right, now you can snag your very own Korean PS3 at the low, low price of around 550,000 won (...
