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Earth Hour campaign in Seoul to heighten awareness for environment

The World Wide Fund for Nature, an international nongovernmental organization dedicated to conservation activities, is set to hold its annual Earth Hour event in Seoul on Saturday evening to spread a...

Mar 23, 2018
People
[Photo News] Abandoned theme park finds ‘second life’ as photo venue

Yongma Land, a closed down theme park in the northern corner of Seoul, has lately seen an influx of visitors coming around to take photos with the battered vintage amusement rides in the background. ...

Mar 23, 2018
Culture
[Travel Bits] Festivals, sights around Korea

Herb Island Lighting & Illumination Festival Herb Island in Pocheon, Gyeonggi Province, will be hosting the annual Lighting & Illumination Festival until Oct. 31. With its 300-meter wish tunnel, a ...

Mar 23, 2018
Travel
[Weekender] Portrait photographs imbued with tradition, history

Photographs have the power to bring back memories associated with subjects presented within their four-sided frames. They can also arouse emotional responses in the viewers. Emotions and memories be...

Mar 23, 2018
Culture
[Weekender] Reading diseases in Joseon portraits

Gazing at portraits created during the Joseon era, one is struck by the extreme delicacy with which the models’ facial features are depicted, from the fine wrinkle lines to tiny spots and faint scars...

Mar 23, 2018
Culture
[Weekender] Perfect selfie requires more than just luck

A decade ago, the word “selfie” did not even exist, but almost everyone with a smartphone takes such photos these days. In Korea, there is even a word for a person who looks very different in selfie...

Mar 23, 2018
Culture
Around the Hotels

Gourmet weekend at Millennium Seoul Hilton Millennium Seoul Hilton offers multicourse specials at its Chinese and Japanese restaurants, Taipan and Genji, only on the weekends. Taipan, the hotel’s C...

Mar 23, 2018
Food
[Home Cooking] Gyeran mari (rolled omelette)

Gyeran mari is Korean-style rolled omelette typically made with one or two types of chopped vegetables. Here, it’s simply made with scallions and carrots. Gyeran mari is not hard to make once you hav...

Mar 23, 2018
Food
What is Korea’s fashion scene like to an Italian buyer?

At the 2018 HERA fall-winter Seoul Fashion Week, there is a distinctive crowd that fills the front rows of fashion shows other than fashion industry insiders, models and celebrities -- buyers. They ...

Mar 23, 2018
Fashion
Day 3 of Seoul Fashion Week

Dongdaemun Design Plaza was filled Thursday afternoon with crowds attending the third day of the 2018 fall-winter HERA Seoul Fashion Week at the peak of its hype. Dressed in bold, creative and unique...

Mar 23, 2018
Fashion
[Epicurean challenge] Another Korean obsession with fermentation: hongeo

Koreans are known for their love of fermented dishes -- for instance, the ever-present kimchi. And Koreans also consume fermented sauces on a daily base. Adding one more to the list is, hongeo, a fer...

Mar 22, 2018
Food
Seoul Players to stage ‘Imaginary Invalid’

Seoul Players will stage Moliere’s “Imaginary Invalid” from this weekend. The play is a comedy centered on Argan, a hypochondriac who plans to marry off his daughter to a doctor who can treat him. H...

Mar 22, 2018
Expat Living
Daejeon Arts Collective pins hopes on ‘Lucky Thirteen’ for spring show

Daejeon Arts Collective will be holding its 13th group exhibition starting next week. Fifteen artists from six continents will be exhibiting at the spring show, titled “Lucky Thirteen.” Among the a...

Mar 22, 2018
Expat Living
Gwangju Performance Project opens 10-minute play contest

The Gwangju Performance Project is seeking scripts for a 10-minute play festival to celebrate seven years of activities in June. Playwrights from all over South Korea, of all nationalities, are en...

Mar 22, 2018
Expat Living
Seoul City recruiting companies for Global Startup Center

Seoul Metropolitan Government is searching for promising foreign-run startups to move into its Global Startup Center in Yongsan. Separate from Seoul Global Center, which runs a similar program, t...

Mar 22, 2018
Expat Living

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