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Han Kang speaks up on Nobel Prize, thanks ‘enormous wave’ of blessing
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Han Kang declines press conference, not to celebrate, citing global wars
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Former Ador CEO gains ground in legal battle with Hybe, as whistleblower reveals plagiarism evidence
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No South Korean military drone entered Pyongyang skies: JCS
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Aunt sentenced to 15 years for throwing 11-month-old nephew from high-rise apartment
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Novelist Han Seung-won says daughter's historic Nobel win feels surreal
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N. Korea sends 20 more trash balloons toward S. Korea: JCS
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'Heavy Snow,' Han So-hee's big screen debut, examines stereotypes of beauty
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Early voting begins for Seoul education superintendent by-election with low turnout
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North Korean man crosses sea boundary to escape to South
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Buffet-style cafe puts Tongin Market on the map
Is Dosirak Cafe Tong one way to help revitalize traditional markets? This year a new traditional market has been getting noticed. Ever since a small do-it-yourself eatery opened in Tongin Market (a small 75-store covered arcade located near Gyeongbok Palace in Seoul), press coverage has been deafening. Though the basic concept behind Dosirak Cafe Tong is not necessarily new (both Noryangjin Fisheries Wholesale Market and Majang Meat Market sport similar hands-on venues) ― people are buzzing abo
June 15, 2012
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KORAIL holds symphony orchestra concert
Korea Railroad Corporation holds a performances by a symphony orchestra on Saturday at 5:00 p.m. at Busan Station as part of its concert tour aimed at offering music to all. KORAIL conducted a national audition last January to select members for the orchestra. There are 92 members selected from the audition with 10 KORAIL employees in the orchestra.The company is planning more concerts to celebrate the first train festival in Seoul in July, and the closing of the Yeosu Expo in August and the DMZ
June 15, 2012
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Air Busan offers discounted air tickets to Fukuoka
Air Busan is offering round trip plane tickets from Busan to Fukuoka at 77,000 won until June 25.The Korean budget airline began the promotion as part of efforts to revitalize trips to Japan after a devastating tsunami and earthquake last year. The tickets can be bought at airbusan.com and cover trips to Japan from July 10-25 during weekdays. Airport tax and fuel surcharge are excluded from the price.Weekend tickets cost 99,000 won, excluding airport tax and fuel surcharge. For more information,
June 15, 2012
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KTO distributes London travel guide books
Korea Tourism Organization is giving out London travel guide books for those who plan to visit the London Olympics this summer.KTO plans to distribute a total of 5,000 guide books titled “How to enjoy the London Olympics” to reporters, supporters of athletes and travelers. The guide books have been published in cooperation with the British Embassy in Seoul and England Tourism Board. The guidebook consists of two parts ― the Olympic games schedule highlighting Korean athletes and major Korean cul
June 15, 2012
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Ritz-Carlton opens first resort in Japan
The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company L.L.C. has opened its first luxury resort on the tropical island of Okinawa in Japan. The Ritz-Carlton, Okinawa features 97 guest rooms and two suites that offer panoramic views of the East China Sea, forests and golf courses, as well as restaurants that serve Japanese, Okinawan and international dishes and a bar. The hotel also has a spa that is located separately from the hotel that offers luxurious spa treatments. “We have no doubt that Okinawa has the potential
June 15, 2012
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New ’Like a Local’ guidebooks from Peter Greenberg
NEW YORK (AP) -- Peter Greenberg wants you to travel like a local, not a tourist, and he‘s written a new series of guidebooks to help.The ``Like a Local’‘ series is debuting with books on New Orleans, the Caribbean, Miami and the Keys, Buenos Aires and Cuba. E-book versions are out in July, and the next five titles in the series, New York, London, Peru, Washington, D.C., and the ``Great Cities of Europe,’‘ due in April 2013.What makes the ``Like a Local’‘ books different from traditional guidebo
June 15, 2012
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The land where life springs from desert and Dead Sea
The most common sound any visitor to Jordan will hear is the heartfelt cry of “Welcome!” Inhabitants of the Hashemite Kingdom are more keen than ever to show the Arab hospitality to tourists, as some have grown leery of the unrest in the countries surrounding this crossroads to The Holy Land.Most recently, ongoing troubles in neighboring Syria and Egypt have robbed more stable Jordan of visitors. Numbers have dropped on the package tours that once incorporated the three with a trip to nearby Jer
June 15, 2012
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Chinese tourists pick Jeju as top Korean destination
The southern resort island of Jeju has been selected as the most sought after summer holiday destination in Korea by Chinese tourists, the Korea Tourism Organization said Tuesday. The poll, conducted on Weibo, a Chinese equivalent to Twitter, from May 10 to 24, involved 1,148 people who are members of the KTO micro-blogging website. The poll found 374 people preferred Jeju Island as a holiday spot, followed by Seoul and Busan. Other places mentioned by the respondents include Yeosu, Mokpo, Gwang
June 12, 2012
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Guesthouses: Hongdae’s hidden charm
Cheap, quality accommodations sprout up in Seoul’s new tourist spotSeoul’s Hongdae community has no shortage of tourist charms: Urban arts, indie music, lively nightlife and unique cafes and restaurants. A new attraction has been added recently ― cheap, convenient and good-quality accommodations. Guesthouses, offering a night’s stay at prices as low as 18,000 won ($15), have been sprouting up in back alleys and corners of the popular youth hangout in western Seoul over the past few years. “Backp
June 8, 2012
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Grand Ambassador Seoul presents ‘Wicked’ tickets
The hotel offers VIP tickets for the musical “Wicked” to its guests in June. It will select three guests by lottery among those who made reservations for the hotel’s spring package and 40 visitors to hotel restaurants who filled seven stamps on an event card. They will be given two VIP tickets for the musical, worth a total of 320,000 won. Guests can make reservations at grand.ambatel.com.For more information, call (02) 2275-1101.
June 8, 2012
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Sheraton Seoul D Cube City Hotel offers outdoor BBQ
The hotel offers a summer barbecue dinner at the outdoor Garden Terrace on Fridays and Saturdays until September. Guests can select from meat, seafood and mixed grill menu items and enjoy unlimited fresh salads. The children’s menu includes barbecue chicken, a mini hotdog and hamburgers. “The Ultimate BBQ” runs from June to September on Friday and Saturday evenings from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the outdoor Garden Terrace, located on the 8th floor of the hotel. It will be closed on rainy days. The pri
June 8, 2012
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New South Wales Tourism Board, Korean Air launch gift event
The New South Wales Tourism Board in Australia and Korean Air are launching a gift event in June.The companies will present some signature products of Australia to customers who buy plane tickets to Sydney at the Korean Air website (www.koreanair.com).The prizes include Australia’s famous vitamin product “Blackmores Super Triple Action Vitamin” for 100 people, an Australian boomerang and Korean Air blankets. The event is held to promote Sydney as a travel hub in the southern part of Australia, w
June 8, 2012
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Ski passes go on sale at Alpensia Resort
Alpensia Resort starts sales of ski passes for the 2012-13 winter season. The sales begins a month earlier than previous years to attract more skiers to the resort, which is the main venue for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics. The price for an adult season pass is 120,000 won, 100,000 won for children and 220,000 won for couples. For members of the Alpensia Resort Hotel and Condominium, the adult pass is priced at 100,000 won and children’s pass at 80,000 won.Tickets are available at www.alp
June 8, 2012
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Hiking the Grand Canyon rim to rim
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK ― The Grand Canyon’s beauty beckons like gravity, pulling even the timid to the chasm’s edge.But for those committing to the challenge of a cross-canyon hike, there awaits below the rim a reward beyond the spectacular scenery: time travel.Those horizontal stripes on the postcard panoramas trace a billion years of geological history. They are the sediment and fossils of ancient oceans. According to author Scott Thybony, who literally wrote the books on canyon trails, to
June 8, 2012
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This summer, explore London’s less obvious side
LONDON ― As a Californian, I had forgotten that you don’t cancel your life just because it rains. If you did, you’d never see anything in London, at least not recently. And there is much to see.Too much, in fact. It’s a travel buffet, and it’s hard not to load your plate with a plethora of monuments, historic buildings and churches.It’s important to see that London, but it’s imperative to see the lesser-known London, if only to escape the hordes who are coming here for the Queen’s Diamond Jubile
June 8, 2012
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Hotel offers stays in exchange for art
A guest room at the Clarion hotel featuring unique artwork. (clarionhotel.com)A hotel in the Swedish capital is offering free stays to guests who donate a piece of self-made art to the facility.The Clarion Hotel in Stockholm said the art-for-stays scheme was inspired by New York's Chelsea Hotel, which allowed prominent artists and musicians to stay for free in exchange for their works of art, The
June 8, 2012
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Seoul to host world tourism congress in Oct.
The world’s largest tourism organization will hold its world congress in Korea for the first time, its organizing committee said on Tuesday. The gathering of tourism professionals is scheduled to be held Oct.2-7 in Seoul and Incheon this year. “The event will be a great opportunity for Korea to promote itself as a major tourist destination to tourism experts. It means more as this year marks the last year of the travel campaign ‘Visit Korea 2010-2012,’ which expects to reach the goal of attracti
June 7, 2012
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Billionaire selling private island
A Seattle billionaire who purchased the world's most expensive car for $35 million is now attempting to sell his private Canadian island for $75 million.Craig McCaw, who sold his company, McCaw Cellular, to AT&T for $11.5 billion in 1993 and now runs high-speed wireless provider Clearwire, is attempting to sell the 780-acre James Island, part of British Columbia's Gulf Islands, with an asking pri
June 7, 2012
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Renaissance Seoul offers local cultural experiences
The hotel offers a local culture program on June 7 as part of the hotel’s global initiative “Live Life to Discover,” taking place in 34 countries, to encourage hotel guests to explore the city they are visiting. It offers a unique selection of soju cocktails including “Soju Tini,” a Korean-twist on the classic martini using Korean soju, and a temple stay program as part of the initiative. The cocktail is available at 9,000 won, excluding tax and service charge at Trevi Lounge.The hotel also reco
June 1, 2012
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Millennium Seoul Hilton presents annual gourmet dinner
The hotel’s French restaurant Seasons offers meals inspired by seasonal ingredients as part of its annual Gourmet Circle Dinner event in June. The summer dishes will be prepared by the hotel’s award-winning executive chef Park Hyo-nam who will offer seven-course meal paired with wines. The dinner starts at 7 p.m. and is priced at 175,000 won per person, including wine. The hotel also promotes Hoengseong Korean beef, some of the best quality beef in the country from Hoengseong, Gangwon Province.
June 1, 2012
