San Maul – My Favorite Korean Restaurant

Samsung Electronics Co.,Ltd. has provided the author of this article with the mentioned digital imaging device.

This is my favorite Korean restaurant, and it encapsulates what I think are Korean food’s strengths. San Maul, or “Mountain Village,” is a peasant farmhouse style restaurant at the foot of Gwanak Mountain that was originally set up to cater to weekend hikers. It’s since grown into a mini empire with restaurant specializing in all kinds of foods up and down the road leading to the mountain.
Even though the restaurant has gotten a bit of fame, the quality is still the same. They serve rustic Korean foods and don’t feel the need to slather everything with gochujang as a crutch. Their homemade hooch, minsokju, is the perfect accompaniment and is great in hot or cold weather.
The restaurant itself is a bit of a complex, with paths winding inside and outside stout thatched roofed wooden buildings. It’s cozy in the winter and a great place to dine outside in the summer, watching the sun set behind the mountain. One night, my wife and I just laid down after eating and watched the stars. How many restaurants let you do that?
Our favorites at San Maul are the chicken barbecue, haemul pajeon, dotorimok salad and their signature boribap. The chicken barbecue is smoked and mahogany colored. I swear it tastes like bacon, and it’s the favorite of many foreigners I bring to the restaurant. The haemul pajeon is a seafood and scallion pancake that is thick and crispy that you dip into soy sauce. The dotorimok salad is made with acorn jelly, lettuce, carrots, onions and a dressing that mixes gochujang, garlic, vinegar and wild sesame seeds. It’s one of my favorites on hot summer days. Their boribap is barley and rice with a series of country herbs, individually prepared, that you mix in your bowl with doenjang, sesame oil and gochujang. It’s one of the few vegetarian dishes that I crave and can satisfy me for a meal. I should also mention that the doenjang is supposedly three years old. Its smell is like a well ripened cheese and rounds out the entire experience.
I hope you enjoy this little tribute to my favorite little restaurant.

NX100`s Microsite from Chile has Won the Webby Awards!

The 2View and NX100’s microsite of Samsung Electronics Chile, Vive La Experiencia, has recently won the 15th Webby Awards as “RICH MEDIA: PROMOTIONAL”.
Of the nearly 10,000 entries from about 60 countries submitted to the 15th Annual Webby Awards, fewer than 10% were distinguished as an Official Honoree. This is 5th time Samsung has won the Webby Awards and the 1st time for Chile companies.
The microsite offers information on Samsung’s 2View camera, the ST600’s unique functions, such as Self-Portrait, Jump Shot, Children Mode, Couple Shot, and Timer. It also offers the feature of the i-Function lens and NX100’s campaign film with OK Go.
The main event, Vive La Experiencia (“live the experience” in Spanish), is a fun flash you can enjoy whether you speak Spanish or not.

1. To begin, click the button “Comenzar!” which means “start.”

2. Once it shows models, select a one to your liking.

3. You can take 6 photos while the model poses for the camera.

4. The photos you made will be shown after you have finished.

5. You can share this event on Facebook.
To visit the microsite, please click here.

NX11 Blogger Workshop: Street Art in Berlin

Samsung provided a special opportunity to enjoy all of the NX11 in all its glory to the photo bloggers in Berlin on April 8. It’s the street tour workshop for the bloggers to experience a lot of the functionalities the NX11 offers and for them to be inspired and motivated by touring Berlin’s streets and awesome places. They had a good time at this workshop to a get-together in a stylish restaurant.
The NX11 blogger workshop held in the city of culture and art! Shall we go?
Welcome and product presentation
PR manager Katja Meincke gave a welcoming speech and the product manager Achim Obermüller gave a product presentation in the Lux11 penthouse in the middle of Berlin. Looking at the picture below, can you feel how individuals were concentrating on the presentation?

The street photo tour in Berlin
After Samsung distributed test samples and everyone had hands-on time with the NX11, the guided photo tour began. The guided photo tour is for testing and showing off the advantages of the NX11. They went on the street photo tour to Café Intimes, Theaterkapelle, RAW-Tempel, Gärtnerstrasse and Café Kaufbar, and they began to take artistic pictures including ones that displayed their own individuality and creativity.



Bloggers’ photographs
Everyone became familiar with the fact that Berlin has hidden stunning places here and there. Feel this city through these fabulous photos of Berlin taken with the NX11 below.




Follow-up and get-together
They carried out follow-up work at Café Kaufbar and then they had a great dinner at Sage Restaurant where they are known for its first-class cuisine and the special atmosphere by setting the artful interior and lighting design. It was the perfect place to exchange views on the NX11 in a relaxed atmosphere.


Great opportunity to experience the NX11
Samsung received enthusiastic feedbacks from those who experienced this workshop. They left warm thank-you notes. Below are some of the notes that were left:
Michael Kirchner : Once more I would like to say thank you for the felicitous NX11 workshop. I’m curious to test the NX11 during the next weeks.
Oliver Schäf : Thank you for the great opportunity! Generally speaking, I’m positively surprised by the NX11.
Steffen Göthling : Now I’m using the NX11 regularly and my little daughter fell in love with it as well!
Through this street art tour in Berlin, Samsung could get a good opportunity to place Samsung’s key messages and to introduce Samsung as one of the leading digital camera companies to social media. Moreover, it was a great time to meet the key online influencers and to establish good relationships with them.

A walk in the park with a flying camera

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. has provided the author of this article with the mentioned digital imaging device.Well today my mother and me went on a walk in the wildlife park near my house. The sky was a great clear Colorado day with a light breeze. The park itself is in between some farms in the area and there we were able to see some cows and horse up close. It was real fun and while I was there I ended up trying to make little animation with NX11.
I did this by taking a whole bunch of photos as I walked and strung them together on my computer. The videos are playing at 6 frames per second if your interested. The first one came out ok, but I think I started to figure it out as I went along. One of them turned out so bad though I’m to embarrass to show you, but I have 4 others that are pretty neat.
Here take a look!

This was my first try. I think it came out ok, but a bit boring to watch.

This is my second attempt at sequencing pictures together. My third attempt didn’t come out well at all, so I’ll skip it and go to my 4^th attempt.

This is a flip.

I thought this one came out really well. It is my last attempt at making a sequence animation while I was walking on this trip. But, after doing this I’m really interested in trying again and I hope you enjoyed watching them.