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[Weekender] Mind your surroundings

Ancient art of pungsu looks to find meaning and significance of the environment

Jun 22, 2018
Culture
[Weekender] When ‘pungsu jiri’ meets home interior design

Although “pungsu jiri,” a Korean version of Chinese feng shui that concerns correlation between life-force energy and its surroundings, is often regarded as superstitious, the idea is often reflected...

Jun 22, 2018
Arts&Design
[Travel Bits] Festivals, sights around Korea

Donggang International Photo Fest The annual DongGang International Photo Festival features events such as the DongGang Photography Award Exhibition, International Open Call, Photojournalists Exhibi...

Jun 22, 2018
Travel
[Around the Hotels] Promotions and packages

Italian getaway at Park Hyatt Seoul Park Hyatt Seoul presents its Summer at the Park package for guests looking for a staycation. The package includes a breakfast buffet for two people at the hotel...

Jun 22, 2018
Food
Hyatt’s Andaz to launch in Seoul

Andaz, a luxury boutique hotel brand under Hyatt, is set for its first launch in Korea. The brand under the global hotel chain Hyatt plans to open its first hotel in Seoul by 2019, Hyatt Hotels Corp...

Jun 22, 2018
Travel
When dining alone, can you be carnivorous?

K-pop act Mamamoo’s Hwasa sparked a gopchang craze earlier this month with her appearance on the MBC reality show “I Live Alone.” She visited a gopchang restaurant by herself and devoured the dish o...

Jun 22, 2018
Food
[Herald Interview] Master calls for Korea to bring geomancy into open

Like other East Asian countries, South Korea has long practiced geomancy, or “pungsu jiri” in the local language. While doubt may prevail toward the pseudoscience, some Korean entrepreneurs and poli...

Jun 22, 2018
Culture
[Trending] K-pop star sparks ‘cow intestines’ craze in Korea

Cow intestines , or gopchang, have always been favored by Korean drinkers, but the popularity of the dish is soaring throughout the country these days. Many local gopchang restaurants are packed wi...

Jun 21, 2018
Culture
3 YouTube Vloggers show glimpse into biracial marriage life

Biracial couples who speak in Korean are gaining subscribers and viewers on YouTube, carving a niche for themselves amid the staggering number of videos that appear on the online video platform daily...

Jun 21, 2018
Culture
Korea’s cultural heritage brought to life via VR

State-run cultural heritage bodies on Thursday launched an online exhibition of the tangible and intangible cultural assets of Korea through virtual reality technology. In cooperation with Google, t...

Jun 21, 2018
Culture
[Herald Interview] Now is time to talk about Korean literature

Publishers choose the books to put out on bookstore shelves, hoping that some will buy and perhaps read them. Yet, many of them go unnoticed among the countless books that are released every day. Th...

Jun 21, 2018
Book Review
[Epicurean Challenge] Pickled seafood with salt, jeotgal

Many Korean dishes contain jeotgal whether we realize it or not. Jeotgal refers to a category of seafood pickled with salt. When naming a specific type of jeotgal, the word “jeot” is used as a suffi...

Jun 21, 2018
Food
Artday to hold June auction

Herald Artday, a subsidiary of Herald Corp., is holding an online auction from June 23-28, presenting works by contemporary Korean artists. The auction will feature artworks by renowned artists, inc...

Jun 21, 2018
Arts&Design
Poetry of Kim Jong-gil’s Life, ‘A Black Kite’

Kim Jong-gil passed away in 2017 at the age of 92. He was professor emeritus at the Korea University English literature department, and in the 1990s we met and discussed translation of poetry from Ko...

Jun 21, 2018
Book Review
Korea CQ Forum holds summer gathering

The Korea CQ Forum of the Corea Image Communication Institute held a ceremony Tuesday at Grand Hyatt Seoul to recognize envoys to Korea for their work in promoting ties between Korea and the countrie...

Jun 20, 2018
Culture

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