Fursys embodies design, science of office furniture A wide range of office furniture can be seen at a Fursys showroom. The black chair in the center was used by leaders at the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul. World leaders who attended the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit and the 2014 ASEAN-Republic of Korea…
Love for Korea over 4 generations Director John Linton of the International Health Care Center at Severance Hospital smiles in his office. He is in charge of the center which provides medical service to international patients. A blue-eyed medical doctor speaks native Korean with a Jeolla-do (Jeolla Province) provincial accent. He leads 40…
T-Money: one transportation card, nation-wide Less than a decade or two ago, passengers taking public transport had to pay their fare in a variety of ways. They had to pay cash, purchase coin-shaped tokens or paper tickets for buses or else tickets for the subway. However, things have changed a lot since 2004…
X-mas tree shines for all religions at Jogyesa Temple Buddhist monks and a children’s choir pose for a photo during a lighting ceremony for a Christmas tree at Jogyesa Temple in Jongno-gu, Seoul, on December 17. On December 17, the lights of a Christmas tree at the Iljumun, the main gate to Jogyesa…
Joseon royal food returns to Seoul Royal Joseon cuisine. as seen in the hit soap opera “Jewel in the Palace,” has now made a comeback in Seoul. An event to bring back the original form of Korean cuisine and cooking as enjoyed in the royal Joseon palaces, and aimed at developing various new…
Land’s end: Haenam If you’re looking to escape the urban jungle of Seoul for a weekend, it would be hard to find a spot further away than Haenam. Jutting out into the southern seas at the very southwest tip of the Korean Peninsula, not only is Haenam far away geographically, but in terms…
Three ballet theaters welcome X-mas with ‘Nutcracker’ Three versions of “The Nutcracker” are coming soon to the stage. Each ballet production has, at first glance, some similarities, but upon closer inspection are subtly different. With Christmas just around the corner, three ballet companies — the Korean National Ballet, Universal Ballet and the Seoul…
Korean history comes together in Chungju The city of Chungju is located in Chungcheongbuk-do (North Chungcheong Province), in the heart of the Korean Peninsula. It’s a city with a population of just over 200,000 and a long history, sitting in the heart of the Jungwon region. With the Hangang River and its southern…
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…
