A world where we can all communicate has arrived.

These days, I'm going through a lot of difficult and challenging experiences in my life due to various things. In this situation, creating a blog site might seem futile and meaningless in some ways. However, being cornered like this with no motivation or energy, I was reminded of the things I really wanted to do.




One of them is creating a blog like this. Not the common WordPress, Naver Blog, or Google Blog (I don't even know if they still offer that service), but a blog that I truly made myself. The kind of work people did when creating websites in the early days, 30 years ago. Of course, with my current skills, I wouldn't be able to code and create a blog site like this without AI. But fortunately, with this great technology, I can finally have my own website that I've wanted since I was a child.




In times like these, when the world is changing so rapidly, I think it's important to overturn the thoughts we've had and come up with new ideas. The fact that I'm going through such a difficult situation now makes me think that perhaps God is leading me to new thoughts and experiences.




It's evident even from the fact that I've created a translation function on my blog site, even though the basic browser already provides a translation function. In my opinion, this may not be a new attempt, but it is a new experience. For generations who have not experienced the early days of the internet, it will be a new and strange experience. On sites from years ago that didn't offer translation functions in the browser itself, translated articles were stored separately as JavaScript data, just like this blog site I created, and loaded when the user selected them. That's how this blog site I created today works.




So why did I bring back that old method and put it on my current blog site when there's a browser translation function? The reason is simpler than you might think. Browser sites don't automatically translate everything yet. I want visitors to my blog site to be able to view it as if it were created by someone from their own country. This feature isn't fully implemented yet, but I plan to update it steadily and make it that way within a few days.




And there's an ultimate reason for providing multilingual support. I am Korean. I speak Korean very well and have read many Korean books. I was educated in Korea, and I like writing and reading books. So, I can write well in Korean. But would that be useful to the many people from other countries who are looking at this blog? Of course, it wouldn't be completely useless. However, the moment the articles I'm writing now are translated into other languages, the possibility of them being perfectly translated to suit the culture and emotions of that particular country is very low. No matter how much translation technology develops.




Of course, AI will translate well in a few years. But in my view, Google has been providing translation functions for over 10 years, but it's still not perfect. Just looking at that, I think perfect translation is either a more distant future or may never be successful. And rather than trying to achieve such perfect translation, I think people are adapting.




What they are adapting to is interpreting AI-translated texts in a way that fits their own culture and thoughts. When you read the translated articles on this blog site, you are accepting the context and the content within, rather than scrutinizing each word, sentence, or grammar point. Humans are adapting in this way. I think this is a really good phenomenon. It's because every individual is attempting to understand each other across borders.




In my opinion, the technologies implemented up to this moment, as they have always been, are a turning point. Technology has emerged that allows people all over the world to communicate truly. How we utilize this in the future is the problem that you and I must choose. In future articles, I will introduce possible methods that I am talking about.