...ou seek an easier sport, try sea kayaking. Dumo Village, located at the foot of southwest Geumsan, has recently been equipped with facilities for it. Kayaking is easier than yachting. About one hour’s training will be enough to enjoy kayaking. You can sail for about 20 to 30 minutes from Dumo Village to Nodo, where Joseon-era novelist Kim Man-jung spent his last three years of life. Daraengi Vil...

...y one of Paris’ crazy, screaming, fist-waving drivers that I never rode it again. I prefer the city’s super-efficient-when-not-on-strike metro system for getting around town. Or my own cowgirl boots, ...ntain climbers. Who’s seen it sparkle?” A few people raise their hands. “You’ve got to see this. It’s every hour, at night, on the hour. It’s like a Christmas tree on steroids.” And with that, we’re ...

Ahn committed to planting entrepreneurship in young hopefuls Behind Korea’s leadership in the high-tech world are a number of business innovators, technology wizards and far-sighted investors. Ahn ... sluggish progress on the global information technology landscape. Despite market hits like Samsung’s Galaxy S, the software sector here has stagnated in recent years. “There are no promising venture...

Your Friendly Neighborhood Criminal By Michael Van Rooy (Minotaur Books) Montgomery “Monty” Haaviko knows a lot about the criminal life, and he’s slowly learning about the straight life. But he does backslide. As if Haaviko, the hero of Michael Van Rooy’s “Your Friendly Neighborhood Criminal,” isn’t busy enough. He baby-sits by day, and he’s trying to ward off a drug dealer who wants to take ...

You’re Next By Gregg Hurwitz (St. Martin’s Press) Gregg Hurwitz delivers a chilling look at one man’s efforts to save his family from his haunted past in “You’re Next.” Mike was left at a foster home when he was 4. His last memory was his father promising to return. He never did. Flash-forward to the present: Mike has an amazing wife and a wonderful 8-year-old daughter. He runs a constructio...

... What happens to your dreams when you know you can never reach them? In answer, author Yang Gui-ja’s novella “Rust” presents a portrait of a middle class man who no longer wants to be what he wanted ...e only trying to maintain what he already has. This is a rich text that contains many ills of Korea’s modernized society, showing class barriers and elitism that limits one’s ability to fulfill goals ...

...uthor had no choice, given her commitment to social realism: An HIV-infected black woman in the 1980s would not have lived long enough to make it past the first page of her sequel, “The Kid” (Penguin ...lture and race, people don’t attribute those qualities to me. They say, she must have lived it. She’s probably HIV-positive. She’s probably an obese black teenager.” By Amy S. Rosenberg, The Philadel...

For much of the 1980s, beginning when I was in college, I used to read a Hemingway book a year. The point was not self-improvement but rather a kind of exploration: What was it, exactly, about his wr...d missed? I had read “The Sun Also Rises” in high school and had admired its spare portrayal of 1920s expatriate life. But I’d also thought of it as more than a little stilted, even melodramatic in it...

...s Estate Chardonnay is consistently one of the finest from California. But this one from the winery’s Saratoga line ― designed to showcase the Santa Cruz Mountain terroir ― is a real find at this pric... : About $23 to $28 ● Style : Lean and focused ● What it goes with : Copper River salmon, lobster and crab. By S. Irene Virbila, Los Angeles Times (McClatchy-Tribune Information Services)

...Stuff burger, and Swiss cheese goes into the mushroom burger. Buns are just about the right width and thickness, though they vary with the size of the patty. While the bread factor is important, it’s the meat that truly matters, and Burger B understands that. Apgujeong’s Burger B Kitchen and Bar owner Jung Sang-chul, 32, revealed that they age their patties for a day in the fridge to make sure that when they cook them, the juices do not escape in the process. Aged ...

LONDON (AP) -- Harry Potter's saga is ending, but his magic spell remains. Thousands of fans from around the world massed in London Thursday for the premiere of the final film in the magical adventu... out as cast members -- including leads Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint -- and Harry's creator J.K. Rowling began arriving on the red carpet, signing autographs and chatting with fans. ...