The 2022 Seoul Gourmet Week is set to kick off Friday, aiming to introduce Seoul's unique and diverse culinary culture. During the seven-day period, 100 restaurants in the city selected by a team of 20 food experts, will be offering special menus and benefits. The complete list of participating restaurants is available on the Seoul Gourmet Week's official website, which includes brief introduct...

Digital media facade projections will be shown at Chundangji, a scenic pond located in the rear garden of Changgyeonggung, known for its fall foliage. The show runs five times a day, from Oct. 1 to 9, every 20 minutes, starting at 7 p.m. A schedule of events for the Royal Culture Festival can be found at the festival's official website.

The manager flaunts her cooking skills to customers every once in a while, spreading margarine evenly on the grill and flips the toast with a swift flick of her wrist. The texture of the toasted bread is soft and moist, falling on the less crunchy side. "We started our business at this stand selling gilgeori toasts, and now we have our own dessert cafe on the upper floor of the market, also name...

Don’t miss out on local snacks and desserts at the snack corner, where chestnut bread, fried chicken and "odeng" fish cakes will be available. Korea’s all-time favorite snacks, gimbap and tteokbokki, which have been listed on CNN’s top 50 street foods in Asia, are also available. In addition, Korean chefs from the Global K-Food Association will show off their specialty dishes, such as japchae, j...

Grand Hyatt Seoul's Paris Bar reopens The Paris Bar, a speakeasy bar located downstairs from the Grand Hyatt Seoul lobby, reopens Friday. The bar offers carefully selected French labels, ranging from a wide assortment of French wines and exceptional natural wines to a limited selection of whiskey and cognac. Alongside original French liquors, Ruinart Blanc de Blancs Brut, an exclusive Champagne...

The National Museum of Korea issued an apology Tuesday evening over the recent controversy surrounding the omission of two ancient Korean kingdoms in a chronology of Korean history at a National Museum of China exhibition in Beijing. "It is our mistake that we trusted the Chinese side (in preparing for the exhibition), and there is no excuse," Yoon Sung-yong, head of the National Museum of Korea...

"One of our core aims was to make each content as intuitive as possible in its storytelling, so that foreigners can also enjoy the event without difficulties in comprehending them," Cho Hyung-jae, artistic director of the festival, told The Korea Herald on Tuesday. The director added that visitors can enjoy evening strolls around some of the royal tombs during the festival period. The opening ce...

Bentota: Madu Ganga, Sea Turtle Research and Conservation Center Madu Ganga River, located near two popular coastal towns, is the second-largest wetland in Sri Lanka. It has rich biodiversity, with over 500 species of plants and animals. A haven for botanists and ecologists around the world, the Madu Ganga offers boat trips to to watch monkeys pick fruits in trees, water monitor lizards glide th...

3. Sri Lankan chicken curry Chicken curry have become a globalized cuisine today, with countless recipes depending on different regions. But curry in Sri Lanka stands out for its unique scent of cinnamon and creamy coconut milk added to the basic recipe. The madras curry powder is known to blend well with other types of spices, which enables different variations to the curry. You can always ad...

JW Marriott Hotel Seoul presents ‘Autumn Holiday at JW’ package JW Marriott Hotel Seoul greets autumn with a promotion filled with autumn-themed gifts, presenting a seasonal staycation. Featuring a choice of Griffin Suite or Deluxe Room, the autumn package includes a facial serum, volumizing cream and softening lotion set by Cle de Peau Beaute, with a total value of 150,000 won. Mont Blanc des...

"We have made an urgent decision to send one of our museum's senior chief researchers and a senior specialist of international affairs by the end of this week at the latest," an official at the NMK told The Korea Herald on Thursday. "However, a 10-day quarantine period exists in China, so an immediate face-to-face contact is unlikely to happen at this point, which is another major problem that we...

A series of events and programs centered around Korea's intangible cultural heritage is to be showcased this fall, both online and at different locations in Jeonju, North Jeolla Province. The National Intangible Heritage Center held a press conference at the Korea House in central Seoul on Wednesday, to announce the upcoming events mapped out for September and October. Marking its 10th annivers...

Korea's two ancient kingdoms of Goguryeo and Balhae are missing in a chronological table of ancient Korean history currently on display at a National Museum of China exhibition, but any correction seems unlikely. The exhibition, titled “Auspicious Metals From the Orient: Ancient Bronzes of China, Korea and Japan,” is jointly organized by the national museums of the three countries to celebrate t...

A special speaker series centered around the theme of Joseon royal court culture will run for three days beginning Oct. 7. Titled, "Gojong's Invitation," the hosts of the series are professor Ju Yong-ha, poet Yoon Ji-yang and a physicist Kim Sang-wook. Online ticket reservations for the festival programs will open consecutively, starting with Saenggwabang, on Thursday at 3 p.m. at Interpark. T...

Celebrating this year's Chuseok holiday, the first one to be spent in three years with social distancing measures lifted, heavy traffic congestion are already apparent on the nation's major highways, since Friday morning. Meanwhile, people still prefer to wear their face masks in public areas that are usually packed with crowds. Passengers wait by the boarding entrance stairs of the Seoul Railw...