The future for young Korean designers in film concept design is bright as film production sites move from Hollywood to other countries, according to Korean-American concept designer Steve Jung. “Koreans have this excellent dexterity and a special talent in design. They are already showing outstanding performance in video game design,” said Jung at a lecture on concept design for films at the Herald Design Forum on Friday. “What they need is more confidence. Many students ask me whether they can

The role of design is to make peoples’ lives easier and better, but what makes a design iconic among thousands of new designs released every year is an emotional connection with people, according to Bruce Duckworth, co-founder of brand design agency Turner Duckworth based in San Francisco and London.“Iconic design is emotional,” said Duckworth at the lecture on advertisement at the Herald Design Forum on Friday in Seoul. Duckworth and his design team led several iconic brand and packaging design

Pairing Chuseok dishes with green tea and handling leftoversWith a mere week left till the nation celebrates one of South Korea’s biggest annual holidays, the time has come to start gathering the necessary ingredients needed to prepare traditional dishes for the ancestral “jesa” table next Sunday morning. By now, Chuseok gifts have begun to trickle in. Generally food-related and seasonal, these packages range from precious rows of pine mushrooms redolent of early autumn to neatly arranged slabs

YUCATAN PENINSULA, Mexico ― What’s the Mexican drug-war body count now? 47,000? Ever since the killings began to escalate in late 2006, I’ve been visiting the country less and choosing spots more carefully.But the Yucatan Peninsula was an easy call. One of the safest and most rewarding places in Mexico these days is the same steamy, lizard-ridden Maya stamping ground where ritual sacrifice was once business as usual, where the alleged apocalypse ― the end of the Maya calendar ― is barely 100 sho

The hotel’s international buffet restaurant Orangerie is hosting “Oktoberfest,” a festival which originated in Munich, Germany, during the month of October. Orangerie will be decorated in blue and white, the representative colors of Oktoberfest. Adding to the ambience, the servers will be dressed in traditional Oktoberfest garb and guests may taste the festival’s signature delicacies including handmade German sausages, sauerkraut, German-style potato salad, German sausage salad and more. Lunch b

The hotel is presenting the “All about Macaron” dessert buffet at the lobby lounge bar located on the 41st floor where guests can enjoy a variety of colorful macarons with coffee or tea. Macaron, one of the best-known French desserts, is a sweet confectionery made with almond powder and characterized by its wide variety of flavors and colors, crisp shell and soft, moist interior texture. Flavors range from blueberry and lemon to coffee, green tea, strawberry, raspberry, orange and hazelnut. “All

The hotel presents autumn seasonal special menus at its Chinese restaurant Cheonsan, Japanese restaurant Manyo and Italian restaurant Verona until Nov. 30. Cheonsan introduces invigorating pine mushroom dishes such as natural pine mushroom abalone, sea cucumber and steamed shark’s fin. Manyo presents “Woo Bon Shu Woo” course menus, which include traditional Kyoto cuisine, autumn pine mushroom and seafood, Dobimushi and “autumn-colored shinzoo” made of natural pine mushroom. Verona offers seven s

The hotel, celebrating the completion of its renovations, presents the “First Stay Package,” offering accommodation at discounted prices through Nov.11. The package will cover a one-night stay at a superior room or an elite room as well as free access to the fitness center and free internet. In addition, a special coupon book will be provided with a gift certificate for a second glass on the house at the lounge bar, a 20 percent discount at any hotel restaurant, and more. Asian Live, Sky Lounge,

The hotel’s Asian restaurants Myonwolgwan and Kiyomizu present “Dishes for Autumn Gastronomy,” available until Nov. 30 and Oct. 31, respectively. Myongwolgwan, the Korean restaurant offers a healthy and eco-friendly dish, steamed rice in lotus leaf. Lotus leaf is a perfect menu for guests with high blood pressure and diabetes. Chef Nagatsuma, the executive chef at the Japanese restaurant Kiyomizu, presents the “autumn kaiseki cuisine,” refined authentic Japanese delicacies composed of pine mushr

DETROIT ― Perched on an 8-foot ladder, Michelle Lutz reaches into the leafy tops of the pole-bean vines growing toward the glass roof of Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital’s new $1 million hydroponic greenhouse.“The first ones!” the resident farmer declares, holding up several young pods.Already that morning she had picked red and green lettuces, heirloom cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, okra, edible nasturtiums and bunches of herbs for the hospital’s kitchen, which uses the produce in patients’ mea