You were the cover model of TIME !

2 years ago the American famous newsweekly TIME selected “YOU” for Person of the year. That means an ordinary man who use internet, blog, media and be active in those places can be a TIME’s Person of the year. It shows that the User’s power grow incredibly bigger than the past, and also play a big role in current society.

For example, in my country Korea people participate actively in creating UGC. Have you heard about UCC? We called ‘UGC’ to ‘UCC.’ The word “UCC” is an abbreviation for User Created Contents. Its meaning is similar to UGC.

　

Incredibly, In Korea the “UCC” exercising a huge force to public. Sometimes Korean called current society as “the boom of UCC.” People express their thought by making and circulating it. “Lim Jeong-hyun”, famous Korean guitarist who became a world star through YOUTUBE.

　

→ click "Here" then you can enjoy Lim's play.

　

Of course, said by “Nobel Laureate Says The Internet Makes Us Dumb, We Say: Meh” and “Death to User-Generated Content” the UGC have a problem such as false tips and problem of copyrights. However, I found lots of interesting things in the UCC. As you can see the case of Lim’s, users can become creator or producer on the internet without any limit of age, sex and human race. Isn’t it cool? :)
　
There are no places we can express our thought freely except the INTERNET.

　

　

Pictures credited to: http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20061225,00.html