Enjoy the Seoul winter skating, sledding As a cold snap descends over the whole city of Seoul, the biting cold wind keeps many people indoors, bundled up, avoiding the outside. For those who are looking for something exciting to do, however, and wish to fully enjoy the season, there are two options available…
Two year-end movies to warm your heart The year end is just around the corner. Two recently released heart-wrenching movies are being recommended for the season. The two movies share one thing in common, that both are documentaries based on the daily lives of real people. The first is “My Love, Don’t Cross…
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…
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…
