The hotel’s Italian restaurant Toscana presents a special menu available on the weekends until Aug. 26. Toscana offers a selection of Italian dishes at a discounted price for families and couples. Guests can choose two dishes from eight different menus including frutti di mare (seafood and tomato), carbonara (bacon cream sauce), aglio olio (garlic and olive oil) and mushroom risotto as well as margherita pizza. The weekend special menu is offered at a price of 35,000 won. For weekend dinner gues

Grand Kitchen at Grand InterContinental Seoul Parnas presents “Unlimited Premium Asahi Draft Beer and BBQ Promotion” from July 6-Aug. 31. The promotion offers Asahi draft beer with no extra charge and no time limit. Guests can also enjoy barbecued meat cooked by the hotel chefs. At the barbecue station, guests can enjoy a buffet, which includes special menus such as lobster and Korean beef steak from Daegwallyeong. The promotion is available on weekdays only. Lunch prices run at 67,000 won and d

What is orzo? How do you cook Israeli couscous? Can you say orecchiette?There’s a dizzying array of dry pastas on store shelves. Some have fancy names for something that’s basically macaroni.We’re giving big pasta like elbows and corkscrews the summer off and downsizing for potluck salads.Too often dainty pastas like orzo and ditalini wind up in soups, but they’re great for salads and just as economical as their big sisters.And they cook more quickly because of their size, so you can make pasta

Choe Kyoo-bok, CEO and president of Yuhan-Kimberly, was awarded the Order of Civil Merit Dongbaeg Medal on Wednesday at the World Population Day ceremony for his work in promoting family-friendly management and efforts to overcome low birthrates. After taking office as CEO and president in 2010, Choe introduced the concept of work-life balance through "Smart Work" management and spearheaded efforts for a family-friendly culture and higher fertility, serving as co-chair of the family-friendly for

Novel approaches create chemistry between products and their usersThe following is the first in a series of articles on various aspects of design prepared in anticipation of the Herald Design Forum on Sept. 19 - 21. ― Ed. Industrial design professor Shim Jae-jin has been carrying a pen by the German fountain pen company LAMY in his suit pocket for 12 years. Over the years, he developed affection toward it to the point where he doesn’t go anywhere without it. “I always check whether I have the pe

LOS ANGELES ―Treatment drugs can do more than improve the health of people with HIV: If administered early, medications can also reduce the spread of the disease to sexual partners and may help stem the AIDS epidemic.But many logistical hurdles stand in the way of making this strategy feasible, affordable and effective, according to experts writing in Tuesday’s edition of the journal PLoS Medicine.The medications in question are antiretroviral therapies, which prevent HIV from multiplying and dr

LOS ANGELES ― A wily parasite well known for influencing the behavior of its animal hosts appears to play a troubling role in humans, increasing the risk of suicide among women who are infected, new research shows.Chances are you or someone you know has been infiltrated by the parasite, called Toxoplasma gondii. Researchers estimate that T. gondii is carried by 10 percent to 20 percent of Americans, who can get it by changing litter used by infected cats or eating undercooked meat from an animal

Here is a list of helpful emergency medicines and medical supplies you should prepare for your summer vacation:Medicines: antipyretic-analgesics, digestive medicine, antacids, anti-inflammatory agents, skin ointment containing antibiotics, antiseptic agentsMedical supplies: thermometer, dressing sets, plasters, tweezers, scissors for medical purposes, cotton Also, it is good to have sunscreen agents, Vaseline and other skin ointments for burns.Antipyretic-analgesics and digestive medicine can be

Parents with infants and toddlers are urged to take extra caution this year for hand, foot and mouth disease ― a mild, contagious viral infection common in young children for which there is no vaccine. According to the Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 16.7 out of every 1,000 out-patients in local hospitals were diagnosed with the epidemic for the week of June 24-30. “The infection is maintaining a high prevalence,” the KCDC said in a statement. This year’s number of patients is l

Vera Wang arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar party on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012, in West Hollywood, Calif. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)Vera Wang’s publicist says the New York fashion designer has separated from Arthur Becker, her husband of 23 years.“They remain devoted parents to their two daughters,” Wang’s company president, Mario Grauso, said in a statement to Women’s Wear Daily.No reason was given for

 A Canadian man hunting for edible mushrooms in southeastern British Columbia stumbled upon an inedible whopper that weighed 57.4 pounds.Christian Therrien, 62, and son Sebastien were combing through waist-high wild grass last week near Fernie when they spotted the enormous puffball mushroom, the Fernie Free Press reported."There was lots of laughing and screaming," Therrien said. "I've found a lo