The hotel’s lobby lounge, The Pavilion, and caf, The View, are offering Very Berry Strawberry promotion for spring from Feb. 23 to April 28. The promotion will run every weekend from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. The menu includes strawberry tiramisu, delicate strawberry pastries, strawberry truffles, strawberry cupcakes, and more. Reservation in advance is required. The strawberry buffet is 55,000 won for adults and 30,000 won for children, tax included. Guests who leave the venues before 3 p.m. will be giv

The hotel presents the “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat” package until April 10. The musical is based on the “coat of many colors” story of Joseph from the Bible’s book of Genesis. Actors Song Chang-ee, Jo Sung-mo and Kim Sun-kyung star in the musical. There are three packages available: The Secret Bronze Package priced at 320,000 wom features a one-night stay in a deluxe room with two R tickets; for an extra 80,000 won you can get the Twinkle Silver Package which includes club lou

Kongbiji jjigae is a stew made with a creamy pure of soaked soybeans. Traditionally, this stew is made with soy pulp that’s leftover from making tofu. It’s also commonly made with finely ground soaked soybeans. Growing up, we usually had it with pork ribs and kimchi. I think that’s the best way. You can use pork meat instead, preferably fatty meat. Pork fat enhances the nutty flavor of soybeans. You can also substitute kimchi with boiled napa cabbage for a milder taste. All you need is a bowl of

LOS ANGELES ― What do some of the top bowls of ramen in Southern California ― the tsukemen at Tsujita, tonkotsu ramen at Daikokuya and kotteri shoyu ramen at Asa in Gardena ― have in common? Their noodles all come from the same place: a small factory near the Compton-Gardena border called Sun Noodle.The L.A. branch of a Honolulu-based company launched nine years ago, making just 10 kinds of fresh ramen noodles. Now, in the midst of a global ramen boom, the factory makes 160 kinds, to customers’

A kiss lasting nearly two-and-a-half days propelled one determined Thai couple to a new record for the world's longest smooch on Valentine's Day, organizers said Friday.Hospital security guard Ekkachai Tiranarat, 44, and 33-year-old housewife Laksana locked lips for 58 hours, 35 minutes and 58 seconds, smashing last year's Guinness World Record by more than eight hours.The romance of the clinch may have been marred by competition rules requiring contestants to remain on their feet throughout, sl

 Babies as young as 7 months can begin to learn two languages even if they have vastly different grammatical structures, Canadian and French researchers say.A study by the University of British Columbia and Universite Paris Descartes reports infants in bilingual environments use pitch and duration cues to discriminate between languages, such as English and Japanese, even though those languages use opposite word orders.In English, a function word comes before a content word -- the dog, his hat, w

British officials say a mysterious virus related to SARS may have spread between humans, as they confirmed the 11th case worldwide of the new coronavirus in a patient who they say probably caught it from a family member.The new virus was first identified last year in the Middle East and the 10 people who have previously been infected had all traveled to Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan or Pakistan.According to Britain’s Health Protection Agency, the latest patient is a U.K. resident with no recent tr

Various diseases are aggravated by the cold weather. However, those with cardiovascular diseases, such as angina, hypertension or stroke, must take particular care.They say that the cold weather leads to the worsening of cardiovascular diseases. This is because the cold weather leads to blood vessel constriction, leading to increased blood pressure, which puts a greater workload on the heart. Thus, people may experience worsening angina symptoms, or have increased blood pressure in colder season

Kim Min-sun, a 28-year-old office worker, takes a day off every month for one physical reason that she wouldn’t speak aloud ― premenstrual syndrome. “I feel ashamed of asking for physical leave. But I think it is better to take a day off rather than suffering from cramps and back pain all day long at the office,” she said.Like Kim, the number of young women claiming their right to deal with premenstrual syndrome is on rise. The number of patients with PMS-related problems surged nearly 50 percen

Revenge: Eleven Dark TalesBy Yoko Ogawa(Picador)Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow has some company in Japanese writer Yoko Ogawa, whose “Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales” is a storehouse of creepy and vicious behavior from otherwise normal-seeming people.In her books that have been translated into English so far, Ogawa has shown a propensity for characters in the grip of obsessions, be they the benign mathematical fixation of the brain-injured scholar in “The Professor and the

Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Writers on How and Why They Do What They DoEdited by Meredith Maran (Plume)Joan Didion had it right. In her 1976 essay “Why I Write,” originally published in the New York Times Book Review, she lays out the template in no uncertain terms: “In many ways writing is the act of saying I, of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying listen to me, see it my way, change your mind. It’s an aggressive, even a hostile act. You can disguise its qualifiers and tentative subjun