Praise for man-of-the-match against Scotland Ahn Jung-Hwan has been abundant in the country's media.
As a new singer-songwriter with a new debut album, Priscilla Ahn is an unfamiliar figure.
"Humans still get our tests right about 96% of the time, " von Ahn says.
The catalyst for Mr Ahn's emergence was the resignation of the mayor of Seoul.
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Yet communication by road is even harder, Mr Ahn says, which further isolates the rural areas.
In comparison, OLED screens are flexible and can bend to give viewers a more immersive viewing experience, said Ahn.
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The two companies are in discussion about creating such a feature, said Ahn.
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For his part, Dr von Ahn talks of better browsing for the visually impaired, and better cataloguing of data.
There was also a big question mark, Ahn added, over whether consumers would actually want phones with a flexible screen.
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Now he is out of the race, Mr Ahn has thrown his weight behind another independent, Park Won-soon, a social reformer.
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Dr von Ahn has created a suite of image-labelling games, and noticed many players putting in more than hours each week.
Ahn Byung-min, of the Seoul-based Korea Transport Institute, has made 40-odd trips to monitor the distribution of South Korean food aid.
"I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight, " said the artist Ahn Duong, one of the few there without a camera.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Christine Ahn.
Mr Khan and Mr Ahn have excited young people cynical about politics.
At first, LG will only offer one Google TV model and only in the U.S. but Ahn said a global rollout is planned.
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In a few minutes I had been labeled human by reCaptcha's audio test seven out of 10 times, just as von Ahn had predicted.
Ms Park, 60, who is aiming to become South Korea's first female president, had been seen as the front-runner until Mr Ahn bowed out.
Ahn said LG sees Google TVs interacting with LG home appliances.
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But Mr Khan, unlike them and like Mr Ahn, Mr Hashimoto and Jokowi, presents himself as an outsider campaigning for a new sort of politics.
Quite possibly, Mr Ahn has his eyes on a bigger prize.
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The clinical trial, which started to enroll patients in January 2011, is being conducted under an FDA-approved special protocol assessment, says Galena President and CEO Mark Ahn.
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"The ATSC Mobile DTV standard offers broadcasters remarkable flexibility to address the changing demands of consumers and advertisers, " said Dr. Skott Ahn, president and chief technology officer, LG Electronics, Inc.
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The Ahn effect has done wonders for Mr Park's chances: a rank outsider before the endorsement, he is now the front-runner, according to a poll conducted by the newspaper Seoul Shinmun.
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And von Ahn admits his audio CAPTCHA is far harder for humans to solve than its visual counterpart: While computers can't crack it, humans also get it wrong 30% of the time.
In an interview with Yonhap, LG's president of its mobile business, Ahn Seung-kwon, stated that the company hoped to bump Samsung to the wayside by 2012 with the help of a serious new set and a premium brand.
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"We believe that working closely with Nanosys will help us to develop exciting new products for our customers that will address needs in the world's largest markets across a number of technologies, " said Seungho Ahn, Senior Vice President of the Intellectual Property Center, Samsung Electronics.
While Andy is planning her own wedding to Max, a handsome media scion, she remains haunted by her impeccably heeled former boss -- and the magazine world being as small as it is, it's only a matter of time before she hears the dreaded syllables "Ahn-dre-ah!"
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