Seoul selected ‘best biz meeting city’ for 3 years Seoul has been recently chosen as the best city for business meetings by readers of Business Traveler. The above photo shows a bird’s-eye view of Seoul from the peak of Namsan Mountain. Readers of a well-known international travel monthly have selected Seoul as…
Korean Peninsula was ‘a land of leopards’ One may think of tigers as the fiercest animal that ever lived on the Korean Peninsula. There was, however, another species of large cat that was just as fierce as tigers, and even outnumbered them. They were leopards. In Joseon times (1392-1910), the number of leopards…
Korean voices left behind in Berlin from World War I “Why am I here?… How did I end up being here, here that I would want to go back, crying?” A mournful voice rang out across the Goethe-Institut in Seoul on December 13. The owner of the voice turned out to be an…
Artificial skin can sense heat, pressure A group of scientists have developed an artificial skin that is as soft as human flesh and which has elasticity just like that of a human. The skin also has “smart” functions that can sense temperature, humidity and pressure from the external environment. A research team led…
