Looking for short getaway this Chuseok? Here’s where to go

Four days off, cooler air and a calendar crowded with autumn festivals are pulling Korean travelers closer to home this Chuseok. Chuseok falls on Sept. 25 this year, and the break runs Sept. 24 to 27. Searches for domestic destinations jumped 160 percent compared with two weeks out from the holiday, according to digital travel platform Agoda. Three places stand out for travelers who want a short trip rather than a long one. Autumn hike and hot spring in Sokcho Sokcho, in Gangwon Province, ranked

2026-09-12 16:00:00:00

Packages and promotions

Chuseok box from Lotte Hotels Braised short ribs simmered with jujube, fresh ginseng and chestnut make up a premium to-go Chuseok spread that arrives packed in a three-tier lunch box. The Delight Box, from Lotte Hotels & Resorts, gathers more than 10 holiday staples for households. Alongside the herbal galbijjim comes a five-piece jeon assortment of mung bean, shiitake, shrimp, beef and fish pancakes, plus seafood japchae, yeongyangbap, grilled abalone, poached octopus, soy-marinated conch, gril

2026-09-11 09:00:00:00

Louis Vuitton turns its Seoul Dosan store into a library

The facade of Louis Vuitton's Seoul Dosan store now reads as a row of books stacked upright, their covers worked over with monogram detailing. Visitors enter through a corridor lined with bookcases, and inside, merchandise sits on library shelves or lies open on reading desks. The luxury house said the Seoul Dosan store has been renewed under the concept of "La Bibliotheque," French for library, and will open to the public on Friday. The first floor is home to stationery and other miscellaneous

2026-09-10 06:51:59:00

Seoul Fashion Week wants to be the 5th fashion capital. It has a bigger problem

The biggest change at Seoul Fashion Week this season was a second location. For the first time, the event split between Dongdaemun Design Plaza and the World Park at Lotte World Tower in Jamsil, a site intended to bring fashion closer to shoppers and tourists. The 2027 spring-summer edition, which closed Sunday, was also the most ambitious version yet. Kimhekim, which built its international reputation at Paris Fashion Week beginning in 2019, held its first show at Seoul Fashion Week, backed by

2026-09-07 13:41:25:00

[팟캐스트] (817) 돌봄 인력난, 외국인이 메울 수 있을까

진행자: 홍유, Tannith Kriel Who will care for Korea's elderly? Foreign workers enter troubled market 기사 요약: 한국이 요양보호 인력 부족에 대비해 외국인 유학생을 요양보호사로 양성하는 정책을 시작했지만, 전문가들은 근본적인 처우 개선 없이는 외국인 인력 유입만으로 문제를 해결하기 어렵다고 지적했다. [1] South Korea’s rapidly aging population has created an issue that is at once demographic and deeply personal: Who will care for the growing number of older people? at once A and B: 동시에 A 이면서 B deeply personal: 지극히 사적인, 나와 직결된 [2] The arithmetic appears daunting. Korea is projected to fac

2026-09-07 11:01:22:00

Kim Min-ha becomes Le17Septembre's first brand model

Actor Kim Min-ha has appeared in the 2026 fall-winter campaign for contemporary womenswear label Le17Septembre. The brand, operated by Hago Haus, has named Kim its first model since its launch in 2013. Shot in natural light under the concept "Kim Min-ha's gaze," the images feature the label's signature outerwear, including a suede jacket and a wool coat, along with knitwear. Le17Septembre opened three stores in August at Hyundai Department Store's Pangyo branch, The Hyundai Seoul and Hyundai Dep

2026-09-07 10:56:16:00

Minhwa, inked

A Canadian client came to a Seoul studio this spring and asked for Ilwolobongdo, the sun, moon and five peaks that once hung behind the throne of Joseon kings. It went on his calf as a farewell to the country. He had wanted a minhwa tattoo for years, he said, and could not find anyone making them. Tattooist Choi Hae-sol hears this often. Choi works in minhwa, the folk painting produced mostly by Joseon's commoner class rather than its scholar-gentry, and by his own count, roughly 95 percent of h

2026-09-05 16:00:00:00

A rocket launch and a night at Versailles: How Korean superrich spend their holidays

Next Wednesday, a group of Korean travelers will sit inside a yurt on the Kazakh steppe and watch a rocket leave the ground. The seat, located at a safe distance from the launch pad, costs 28 million won, or roughly $20,600, per person. The seven-day Kazakhstan itinerary, sold by Modetour, is built around the Baikonur Cosmodrome. It covers the Gagarin launch pad, the assembly and fueling complex where the Buran space shuttle is stored, a test stand displaying the Energia-M rocket and an aerospac

2026-09-05 09:00:00:00

Packages and promotions

Andaz Seoul Gangnam pours 7,000-won cocktails for three days Cocktails, wine and beer drop to 7,000 won a glass at Andaz Seoul Gangnam through Sunday, as the hotel marks its seventh anniversary. The happy hour runs from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Bites & Wine on the second floor, where snacks are also 7,000 won each, down from the usual 12,000 won. Arts Cafe on the first floor serves coffee and cafe lattes at 7,000 won over the same three days. Through September, Jogakbo Kitchen and Meat & Co. St

2026-09-04 09:00:05:00

Frida Kahlo through eyes of Lie Sang-bong

Fashion designer Lie Sang-bong has spent four decades bringing Korean cultural motifs to audiences overseas. For his 40th anniversary collection, however, he began somewhere else — with a Mexican artist whose work confronted pain head-on. Frida Kahlo became the muse for Lie’s latest collection, shown Tuesday evening at Dongdaemun Design Plaza on the opening day of 2027 spring-summer Seoul Fashion Week. Behind the choice was a question that has stayed with him amid years of war and conflict: How

2026-09-03 17:57:34:00