LEGO: Everything is NOT awesome

The earth is experiencing abnormal climate annually.  Due to climate change, the ice is reducing where polar bears inhabit. And polar bears are damaged by illegal poaching, oil-spill and excessive resources developments. In this situation, I recently heard the news from the environmental organization Greenpeace that the global oil company Shell is planning to explore oil on the North Pole in 2015.

To save the North Pole and polar bears, Greenpeace visited Lego Company headquarter which is headquartered  in Denmark and requested as follows.
“The toy company Lego, who gives dreams and hopes to children in the world, cooperate with international oil company Shell, is not good for image of Lego Company.  Shell takes advantage of Lego’s good image and try to cover the North Pole with dark oil.  Please carefully consider for lasting cooperation relationship with Shell.”
Upon the request of Greenpeace, while Lego is in a quandary, Greenpeace and fans of Lego launched a fantastic pincer operation to save the polar bear.

Below is the video titled `LEGO: Everything is NOT awesome’ on U-tube on 8th of July.
It is the video using by Lego toy showing how the nature will be destroyed, if oil-spill happens in the North Pole.  It shows the flag of Shell alone in the North Pole covered with dark oil. What else can we do in order to make the world where all people can co-exist and to save the animals on this planet?
It is time for our concern is needed.

“Uber”- Convenient Service for Travelling Seoul, Korea

Have you ever got lost in Seoul?
Or have you ever been late, not being able to take a taxi or get on a bus?
There is a service for those people.

That is Uber. .
It is well-known for advanced IT technology which combines the latest IT tech with transportation.

Then, what is Uber?
To explain it easily, it is application for call-taxi. People had to call the taxi company for a cab. Now that people can just download Uber application and call the nearest cars. 

It is easy and simple to use.
Users need to put their name, email and credit card information, and then there will be available limousines on the map.

 

If you click it, you will be able to see the driver, kind of vehicle and review from Uber users.
Based on information, user can call it and the car will be ready to your location.
When the user is not at the destination, they will send you a message to let you find the car easily.
Uber is different from other limousine companies.
The driver will take you to the destination. It is the same as the call-taxi service.
Payment for Uber is also different. When you arrive to the destination, people normally pay with cash or card to drivers. Registered card on Uber application is paid through IAP (In-App-Payment).
So, users don’t have to pay in cash or credit card to the driver.


There are many more convenient advantages.
Uber user can check the location all the time and share it with families or friends.
All limousines which provide Uber service has own registered number, so anyone can locate the Limousine with this number.
It will be reassuring when you put your friends or coworkers at night. Also, the person who pays for it doesn’t have to be in the limousine since it is paid automatically through the application.
It is useful when someone has to pay by corporate credit card. 

Besides, people can use it even when users are nearly impossible to get a taxi because of bad weather, the end-of the year and so on.
The reason is simple. They use peak-time price that the cost will depend on distance with high demand and the cost will go down with high supply.
The driver will get incentives when they are on service with high demand. It enables the company to have enough limousines.

The price is higher than normal taxies. It is 1.5 times more expensive. If you can use a cab in 20,000 won, you will have to pay 30,000 by using Uber.
Though, it is not that expensive considering that you can take a sedan and it will come to you wherever you are.
It will be just like taking deluxe taxi.

Now you know the way of using Uber, you don’t have to worry about transportation and enjoy your time in Seoul. :)