whats the difference between asperger syndrome and disorder?

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There's no classification between asperger's syndrome and disorder in Korea generally.
(but it doesn't include experts' opinion because I couldn't find their papers about it.)

Might syndrome mean 'mild' and disorder mean 'mad'?

What's the difference? do you have a syndrome or disorder? and what 'Aspergers' in this site exactly means?

There's no difference at all. "Asperger's Disorder" is the name it has in the DSM-IV. I think it was an effort to streamline the names of the different diagnoses; lots of other things got "disorder" names, too.

Syndrome literally means "group of symptoms generally found together". Because AS can't be detected directly, it's diagnosed by its symptoms--the autistic traits you display in your daily life.

I think psychology has long ago gotten over the idea that autism has anything to do with psychosis (false perceptions and false beliefs)--so, no, they do not think we are "mad". They are, in fact, getting away from psychological explanations altogether and going into neurdevelopmental ones--that is, they believe autism has to do with the way your brain is physically put together, and has developed over the pre-natal period and early infancy into the autistic brain you have today.

From the ever friendly DSM-IV-TR and its entry on Asperger's Disorder: