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Shopping by phone at South Korea's virtual groceryA young woman shops Seoul's Seolleung station, using her smartphone
Online shopping is nothing new, especially plugged-in South Korea. But one company says it's going further. It's testing out a virtual supermarket a public place.
Seolleung underground station the platform, with hundreds of pictures of food and drink - everything fruit and milk instant noodles and pet food.
Standing the platform, a man his 60s who gives his name Mr Bae, says it looks to him like an advertisement a convenience store.
When I explain it's a virtual supermarket that you access your smartphone, he doesn't seem impressed. He says he doesn't have a smartphone, so it's not him. But he says, it's a good idea younger Koreans.
And that's who this virtual supermarket is primarily designed according to Homeplus, the South Korean affiliate of the British supermarket chain Tesco.
No time to shopEarlier this year, the Wall Street Journal reported that the number of smartphone subscribers South Korea had passed 10 million, from just a few hundred thousand 2009.
That might be why Homeplus's project co-ordinator, Jo Hyun Jae, is sounding so confident.
He says young Koreans increasingly rely smartphones to take care of many of their daily tasks.
"Our customers are really busy and many don't have the time to go to the supermarket to do their shopping," he says. "So our virtual store allows them to save time."
Kim Yoona, 25, volunteers to give the virtual supermarket a try.
After downloading the Homeplus app to her smartphone, Kim stands the platform, checking what's on offer.
She has more 500 of the company's most popular grocery products to choose .
Several "shelves" at the virtual store"I'm thinking of buying the Maxin Mocha Gold Might, an instant coffee mix," she says. "They have one, two, three, four, five, six kinds of coffee mix lines. Because Maxin is my favourite, I will buy this."
Kim holds her phone over the black-and-white QR - the Quick Response code - just under the picture of the coffee.
There's a beep, and the picture of the coffee appears on her phone screen.
She selects what bag size she wants, then the app asks her to enter when and where she'd like the product delivered.
'Quick to adapt'If orders are placed before 13:00, the company pledges to deliver the groceries the same evening.
Homeplus's Jo Hyun Jae said there are plans to put virtual stores other underground railway stations, especially those close to the city's universities.
And the company wants to introduce them in other countries too, he says.
"We think this concept can work outside of Korea, many young people the world are adopting smartphone technology."
A display of virtual groceries on the platformBut Kwon Ki-Duk, at the Samsung Economic Research Institute in Seoul, says there are aspects of local consumer culture that make technology like the virtual grocery more likely to take in South Korea elsewhere.
She points out that Koreans are very quick to adapt to new technology products.
"Koreans are really interested in converging and cramming many different functions a single gadget, and mixing technologies, in order to find novel ways to complete ordinary tasks," she says.
But, says Kwon, South Koreans are not ready to abandon today's supermarkets - not yet least.
The country is famous its long working hours and tough work culture. Going shopping, she says, is a way for people to relax when they are not working.
She includes herself that group.
After trying out the virtual store, Kim Yoona agrees that her, it does not yet replace a physical supermarket.
That is because she likes to see and touch items before she buys them.
"When I go to the real store, I can check the quality the vegetables or fruits," she says.
There doesn't seem to be a smartphone app that can do that.
Not yet, anyway.
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Canary Island volcano: A new island in the making?
An undersea volcano erupting just south of Spain's Canary Islands may be the beginnings a new island, or an extension to an existing one. some, it's a colourful spectacle - others a major blow to their livelihood.
"It's angry today. Look it go!" says fisherman Elio Morales Rodriguez in the village La Restinga, the south coast of El Hierro island.
"That green patch on the water is a dead zone," he says, looking out to sea. "It kills everything. No fishing, no dive schools, no tourists, just dead fish the surface."
For more a month, the underwater volcano has been erupting three miles the south of El Hierro, the smallest of the seven Canary Islands, 50km (30 miles) south-west of its nearest neighbour, La Gomera, and 100km (60 miles) the most populous of the islands - Tenerife.
From about 60m below the sea, the so-called "submarine" volcano is spewing gases and burning lava, some of which is breaking the surface of the water.
That has drawn lots of camera crews racing to the island to see what's going , but far fewer tourists usual. Local journalist Barbara Belt says the islanders don't know when all the fuss will die down and they will be able to get with their lives again.
In the coastal village of La Restinga, many bars, restaurants, and hotels are shut, and many of the village's residents have already left.
TremorsScientists say the eruption is part of the long-term volcanic evolution of the Canary Islands, which may result in a new island, or add new territory to the southern coast of El Hierro.
There is seismic activity to the north of the island too.
"There has been an enormous amount of seismic activity the island," says Nemesio Perez, scientific coordinator at Involcan, the Canaries Institute of Volcanology.
"Off the south coast, the magma has broken through the crust. The question is whether that will also happen the north coast too."
Mr Perez studied volcanology Japan and the United States before returning his native Canary Islands in 1997 to help improve the archipelago's volcano monitoring network.
In the past four months, the network has detected more 11,000 tremors across El Hierro island, one of which measured four-point-six the Richter scale, and was strong enough to be felt on La Gomera and Tenerife. One resident of El Hierro said it was like an "energy jolt", while another described the noise "a deep roar".
Most of the tremors on El Hierro have gone unnoticed the 10,000 residents, but a number have been powerful enough to make some a little nervous.
"Islanders have had suitcases ready the door, with a change of clothes, battery radio, torch, blanket and emergency rations," says Barbara Belt.
On the north of the island, in an area called La Frontera, a teacher named Carmen says she's using games to encourage children at her infant school to follow emergency procedures. "When I blow a whistle, they scramble to get under the tables as fast as they can. We sing songs until the all-clear, then line up holding a rope to go outside," she adds.
"Islanders are told to stay inside during tremors," says Barbara Belt. "When calm returns, they move outside to prearranged meeting points."
The island got a visit from the Spanish defence minister in September.
In La Caleta, a civil defence task force has arrived from the Spanish mainland and is on stand-by to help in case of emergency.
Ash cloud?The islanders' daily lives were disturbed the temporary closing of a vital road tunnel. There have also been evacuations from homes in potentially hazardous areas.
some, the worst of it has been the impact on the tourist trade.
Most of the Canary Islands have dark sand, betraying their volcanic origins"The TV and papers dramatise everything," says Maximo Rodriguez, chatting in a near-empty bar in La Restinga. "It scares people . People should come. How often do you get the chance to witness this?" he asks.
the north side of the island, La Frontera, the owners of the Tasca La Cantina bar, Jose Antonio Padron Perez and his wife Maria Fonte Armas, say they are similarly fed .
"We get walking groups from northern Europe the winter season. Everyone cancelled. But real life isn't dramatic the press say. We are all aware of volcanic activity. These are volcanic islands!"
El Hierro has more than 500 open-sky cones, making it the most volcanic of all the Canary Islands, and this may be why so many Herrenos say they are unperturbed. Carmen says her children's paintings of volcanoes are colourful and fun, not dark and sinister.
Dr Joachim Gottsmann, a volcanologist at Bristol University in the UK, who leads a European Commission-funded volcano study, says there is no obvious or impending prospect of an Iceland-style "ash cloud" developing in the Canaries.
"Right now, the eruption south of El Hierro is really a submarine eruption only," he says. But he adds that this could change any minute.
So a cloud of uncertainty hangs over the heads of the islanders. They would like the fuss to subside - or least for more tourists to come to the island witness volcanic evolution themselves.
