Saturday, May 12, 2012

Super cars and avatars: Seoul's mind-blowing future technology museum

by Frances Cha

This week, as part of a mentor fellowship program, I had the opportunity to visit T.um, the technology museum run by SK Telecom in Jung-gu in Seoul. 

It may have been because "Back to the Future" was my favorite movie growing up and I’ve always loved science fiction (to the horror of my lit professors in college), but I was so taken with the tour, I went back the next day and asked if I could have a longer one.

And then even that felt too short. 

As Korea is the most wired country in the world, and SK Telecom (with 26.6 million subscribers) is in charge of a significant part of that wiring, the company is understandably aggressive about developing technologies across various platforms. They launched T.um to showcase their latest efforts. 

The museum far exceeded my expectations -- especially as I'd thought I was going on a boring corporate tour -- and provided a fascinating look at life and technology in the future. 

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