2018년 3월 16일 금요일

Why are the Korean flag and Pepsi logo so similar?


The opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Olympic Games was a success. It showed a drone olympic flag, human face shaped bird and wonderful appearance of figure queen Kim Yuna who lighted the olympic flame.

It is said that a lot of foreign netizens who watched Korean flag, Taegeukgi for the first time on this ceremony showed confusion and wondered about its relation to Pepsi logo in SNS.

Few years ago, there was a hypothesis that the logo of Pepsi is very similar to the pattern of Tai Chi, and that the person who made the name 'Pepsi' is Korean.
This rumor says that Pepsi held a public contest for its name and final contestant came up with name "pep" which is sound of opening bottle and "si" which is sound after opening pepsi can.
This contest winner who is Korean suggested pepsi logo which is similar to Korean flag as well.
This rumor in Korea turned out to be false of course.

In reality Pepsi changed its red logo color to red, blue, white for war support in the wake of the American War of the 1940s, and after that it changed its logo shape to a pattern which is similar to Tai Chi.

And the official PyeongChang 2018 Olympics sponsor is not Pepsi, but its rival, Coca-Cola.





2018년 3월 10일 토요일

Ryu Si Won's recent fan meeting in Japan 2018

On March 8th, Ryu si won posted photo on instagram saying "it was happy time, my family whom I am always thankful for." This is a photo of a recent fan meeting in Japan.
In this selfie Ryu smiling behind fans completely filled the seats at the event which confirm his unchanging popularity in Japan.
In addition, he posted another selfie with smoking a cigarette and posing towards the camera.

Netizens who attended the fan meeting responded such as "I was really happy because it was really fun."