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Korean battery makers brace for impact of US election
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Who is writer of Hybe's controversial internal report?
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After opposition U-turn, Korea to repeal plan for financial capital gains tax
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[AtoZ of Korean mind] Ever noticed some Koreans talk to themselves?
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[Breaking] North Korea fires short-range ballistic missiles: JCS
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Amid record-low approval rating, Yoon forgoes Assembly budget address
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Gangnam Station ramming suspect to face detention
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South Korea and Central Asia set stage for first summit
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[From the Scene] Gumi, home to Nongshim’s largest factory, rebrands itself as ‘city of ramyeon'
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Local food festivals enjoy unexpected popularity as snacks go viral
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JW Marriott launches live performances
JW Marriott Seoul’s Bar Rouge offers new live performances by band Musica starting on April 10. This award-wining Filipino male-female duet has gained a reputation for breaking the stereotypes of existing Filipino bands and mastering a wide range of genres such as pop, jazz, bossa nova, reggae and R&B. The band will perform Tuesday to Saturday, from 9 p.m. to 12:45 a.m. Bar Rouge will also offer free membership to everyone who visits between April 10 and 14. Bar Rouge membership brings a wide va
April 6, 2012
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Imperial Palace Seoul hosts Black Day event
Imperial Palace Seoul’s New York-style lounge bar Zoe will host a “Black Day Event” from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. on April 14. Black Day is a day known in Korea among singles who didn’t get to celebrate Valentine’s Day and White Day (March 14) as part of a couple.The hotel’s event offers various match making programs as well as games for couples formed that day. There will also be sweepstakes where winners can receive a complimentary stay in one of the hotel’s room, a complimentary coupon to Buffet Fami
April 6, 2012
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Millennium Seoul Hilton offers Campania taste
Millennium Seoul Hilton’s Italian restaurant Il Ponte will host a special promotion showcasing the foods of Campania. Diners can enjoy a special five-course menu that highlights the bountiful foods made famous from this southern region of Italy. Chef Anita Bidini has put together a menu composed of dishes such as spaghetti with mussels and oregano in white wine sauce and grilled sirloin of beef with prosciutto and mushroom sauce on broccoli with garlic and oil. Dinner options start from 69,000 w
April 6, 2012
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Hanjin Tour offers Balkan tour packages
Hanjin Tour is offering various tourism packages to visit Balkan countries. Tourists can depart on April 28 or every Saturday in May to Croatia on Korean Air flights. A nine-day tour which visits Croatia, Bosnia, Slovenia and Montenegro is priced at 3.99 million won; another nine-day tour which makes a round of Croatia and travels as far as Hvar Island starts from 4.79 million won; and a package offering travels crossing four countries ― Croatia, the Czech Republic, Austria and Hungary ― starts
April 6, 2012
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Book Benikea hotels on smartphone
Benikea, the nation’s largest tourism hotel chain run by Korea Tourism Organization, announced on Wednesday the launch of an application which enables booking through smartphones. Users can check real-time information and reservation rates of Benikea hotels. It can also be useful in locating a nearby Benikea hotel.The app is available in Korean and English, and can be downloaded from the android market as well as the iPhone app store. It will also be available at T-store within April. For more i
April 6, 2012
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For $65, Buddhist retreat provides a yurt, all the peace you can stand
BLOOMINGTON, Indiana ― No matter how I searched, the Wi-Fi wasn’t there. No television either. Even my phone, struggling toward two bars, conspired against modernity.But that’s what you pay for at the Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center and its 108 wooded acres just south of this state’s flagship university. Not that you pay much. Renting one of the four yurts in these woods costs $65 per night.What you won’t get during your stay: what’s mentioned above. Or soap in the bathroom.What you d
April 6, 2012
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Money talks in search for London Olympic hotels
LONDON (AP) ― Coming for the Olympics with money to spend? Then there’s still time to ensure you can take tea at The Ritz, drink at the Savoy’s American bar, or sleep in an Art Deco room at Claridge’s.Most of London’s most exclusive hotels have been booked for the Olympics, snapped up by Olympic officials or companies block-booking rooms for favored customers, but there are still amazing places to stay.That is, if you can afford the bill.“You can still get some rooms in certain periods of the ga
April 6, 2012
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Go ‘glamping’ with heartthrob actor
Cheil Industries’ new outdoor brand Bean Pole Outdoor offers a camping trip with actor Kim Soo-hyun, who shot to fame after starring in the hit MBC drama “Moon Embracing the Sun.” The participants will be able to enjoy “glamping,” or glamorous camping, from May 11 to 13 at Hotel Shilla Jeju. Glamping is a luxury kind of camping which is gaining popularity among the wealthy in Northern America and Europe, organizers said. Among subscribed customers, Bean Pole Outdoors will randomly pick eight tea
March 30, 2012
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Outrigger, OHANA offer deals for SPAM JAM
Set for April 28, the 10th Annual SPAM Jam Festival celebrates one of Hawaii’s most beloved canned meat, SPAM. That night, Kalakaua Avenue will be lined with various booths offering all types of SPAM-related food and products, and various events will be held. At the Outrigger Reef on the Beach, guests who turn in a can of SPAM when checking in on Saturday, April 28, will be given a $10 gift certificate (one per room, per stay) to Kani Ka Pila Grille, a casual dining restaurant located poolside a
March 30, 2012
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Spring Greens with Hyatt Regency Jeju
Hyatt Regency Jeju on Jeju Island presents flavorful spring herbs and fresh fish from Jeju Island at Terrace Caf. The six-course Korean Spring Greens menu is comprised of Jeju canola salad with Halabong tangerine as a starter, with seasoned spring namul (seasoned vegetables) with seafood and soba noodles, assorted spring namul bibimbap with bean paste, broiled mero fish and yam mugwort, and clam bean paste soup to be served as main dishes. Fresh strawberries and Japanese apricots will be served
March 30, 2012
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Sheraton Incheon launches Earth Hour
As the one and only LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified Hotel in Korea, Sheraton Incheon Hotel has prepared special offers in time for Earth Hour, during which the hotel will spend an hour in the dark on March 31 from 8:30 p.m. On the same day, the hotel’s Italian restaurant Bene, Japanese restaurant Miyabi and Chinese Restaurant Yue offers candlelight dinners specially created with a healthy and green themed five-course menu along with a complimentary green cocktail.
March 30, 2012
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North Jeolla Province beckons spring travelers
In time for 2012 Yeosu Expo, regions in North Jeolla Province offer various tourism packagesFor those who have never visited North Jeolla Province before, now is the perfect time to visit the warm, southwestern region of the country. In celebration of 2012 as the Visit North Jeolla Province Year and the three-month 2012 Yeosu Expo which will soon kick off on May 12, in nearby South Jeolla Province, various regions of the province are offering interesting festivals and attractive tourism package
March 30, 2012
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New Zealand offers tourists tanks for their memories
In a country regarded as the adrenaline-pumped home of adventure sports, one New Zealand company is offering frustrated drivers the chance to squash a car with a Centurion tank.Tanks for Everything in Christchurch has a fleet of eight tanks, armoured personnel carriers and Jeeps, the largest of which can easily crush a family sedan pancake-flat in a crescendo of squealing metal and shattering glass.“I think it maybe releases repressed frustration, to go and crush something with a tank,” owner Jo
March 30, 2012
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Phone service makes Seoul travel easy
‘tt’ call center operators offer information, careOn a cold December day last year, an elderly Japanese woman was found sitting on the steps of Myeong-dong subway station. The person who found her wanted to take her to her destination but couldn’t communicate in Japanese.The person called 1330 and was able to communicate with the woman through the Japanese language interpreter on the phone. The call was also transferred to the police who tracked down a report of the disappearance of an elderly J
March 27, 2012
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Sunday brunch at Ritz-Carlton’s garden
Ritz-Carlton in Yeoksam-dong, southern Seoul, invites guests to get an early taste of spring at its European restaurant The Garden. The Sunday brunch features around 60 fresh, healthy selections such as balsamic onion with Korean wild chives, deep-fried fatsia, smoothies made from carrot and blueberry, lobster, grilled lamb chops, king prawns with scallops, foie gras mousse, black bean mousse, and eggplant cheese terrine. The brunch runs from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and costs 65,000 won, exclusi
March 23, 2012
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Westin Chosun Seoul offers buffet lunch deal
Aria, an open kitchen live buffet restaurant in the Westin Chosun Seoul in central Seoul offers “Happy 4 Lunch” promotion through April 30. If a party of four adults visits Aria for lunch on weekdays, they can enjoy a buffet lunch for the price of three. The guests can also receive a 20 percent discount coupon for their next visit, valid until September. The offer is priced at 204,000 won, excluding of tax and service charges. Aria is a spacious and open kitchen buffet restaurant which offers a
March 23, 2012
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The North Face searches for disabled hikers
Registration for outdoor brand The North Face’s “2012 Together Mountain” event is open until April 6. The event, now in its seventh year, invites the disabled as well as non-disabled to climb mountains together. This year, the event will be held on April 15 at Mount Nam in Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang Province. Those who want to participate can sign up through The North Face’s website (www.thenorthface.com) or at the brand’s stores throughout the country. The registration fee of 30,000 won will be
March 23, 2012
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Hyundai Card offers early bird benefits to Guam
Jointly organized by Hyundai Card, Guam PIC, Jin Air and Modu Tour, a three-night-four-day package takes travelers to luxurious all inclusive resorts in Guam every day from April 13 to May 23. Early birds who register for the package by March 30 will be charged 899,000 won for adults, 499,000 for kids and 150,000 won for toddlers (package does not run from April 27-30 due to Japanese holidays). In addition to a variety of sports and activities to experience, kids can participate in free English
March 23, 2012
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Hanoi is emerging as a destination for foodies
HANOI ― In Hanoi, soup is a way of life ― the connective tissue of Vietnamese culture. With noodles, herbs and sinew, it strings together twisting streets and varied lifestyles. Here the bones, crumpled napkins and squeezed limes that litter the ground beneath tiny plastic tables are symbols of a good meal and a life well lived.I came here in early December largely because of Hanoi’s growing reputation as a culinary capital. In 2010, the website Sherman’s Travel (www.shermanstravel.com) ranked H
March 23, 2012
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Lombok offers royal vacation for peasant fare
LOMBOK, Indonesia ― It can be hard for some vacationers to find that perfect mix of the rural and the urban with a side of raw, untouched culture. Lombok Island, however, offers all that and more to those looking for an affordable tropical getaway.Moments after stepping out of the newly constructed sole airport on the island just off the coast of the tourist powerhouse Bali, one can see just how untouched the island is. On the lawns and outside the gates of the airport, it is a common pastime am
March 23, 2012