Hip new coffee shop in Seoul’s Cheongdam-dong

Luxury gift sets at Millennium Seoul HiltonIn celebration of the Lunar New Year, Millennium Seoul Hilton is offering a sale on luxury gift sets from Jan. 13 to Feb. 17. The top-grade galbi sets consist of prime-grade hanwoo beef, Australian wagyu and American beef, with prices ranging from 420,000 won to 1.2 million won. The yellow croaker with roe sets are priced at 360,000 won to 680,000 won. Premium food gift sets include preserved abalone from Wando Island, crabs marinated in soy sauce and L

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ― A treasure hunter accused of cheating his investors out of their share of one of the richest hauls in U.S. history ― $50 million in gold bars and coins from a 19th-century shipwreck ― was captured at an upscale Florida hotel after more than two years on the lam. Federal marshals tracked Tommy Thompson to a hotel in West Boca Raton and arrested him Tuesday. A warrant had been issued for him in 2012 in Columbus after he failed to show up for a hearing on a lawsuit brought by

The Ten Habits of Designing My Life, 10CBy Choi Jung-wha (HUINE)People often ask me how to be successful, says Choi Jung-wha, the president of Corea Image Communication Institute. But she admits that she doesn’t really like the term “success.”“Success is a result, not the end-goal itself,” says Choi in her new book, “The Ten Habits of Designing My Life, 10C.” She believes that many so-called successful people live by principles and habits in their lives. As the title suggests, the book is Choi’s

Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America By Jill Leovy (Spiegel &Grau)The killings of unarmed black men by police in Missouri and New York have dominated recent headlines, but the slayings of black males by other blacks in the nation’s most violent ghettos still get barely a footnote.Americans have long been complacent about these anonymous murders, many of them gang-related, most of which go unsolved. The notion that such killings are not newsworthy is reflected in the label that used to b

In less than a decade, Seattle-based Zillow has become the nation’s leading brand for homebuyer real-estate information. It’s become synonymous with looking up your home’s value ― or someone else’s.In a forthcoming book, “Zillow Talk: The New Rules of Real Estate,” Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff and chief economist Stan Humphries offer some surprising answers ― backed by data ― to a range of housing questions. Among them:- Should Congress eliminate the current mortgage-interest tax deduction? (Yes)-

When a Silver Alert is issued for a missing senior citizen, highway signs flash details about what I think of as the getaway car. I enjoy imagining an elderly gent or lady switching off Fox News, rising from the reclining chair, and making it clear that no one’s ready to go gently into that good night just yet.In real life, of course, such alerts help desperate families find missing seniors with Alzheimer’s disease, dementia and other age-related challenges. But the world of “Etta and Otto and R

The Great Zoo of ChinaBy Matthew Reilly (Gallery)Matthew Reilly takes elements from Michael Crichton’s classic “Jurassic Park” and gives them a high fantasy spin in his latest action masterpiece, “The Great Zoo of China.”Reptile expert Dr. Cassandra Jane “CJ” Cameron is asked to visit a zoo that is soon to open in the middle of China. Staff members at the site are extremely secretive and provide few answers to her questions until Cameron and the others witness what animals are being kept inside

My Father’s WivesBy Mike Greenberg (William Morrow)Mike Greenberg knows sports. And talking about them. One-half of the long-running and ever-popular “Mike & Mike” national sports radio show, Greenberg (alongside co-host and former NFL player Mike Golic) spends the morning drive-time period touching on all the prevailing topics of the day in the world of sports. It’s not all that surprising that Greenberg has parlayed his on-air success into a thriving writing career.What is surprising, however,

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With foreign brewers having helped propel a demand for quality craft beer in Korea, a growing number of expats are hoping to have a similar effect on Korea’s makgeolli scene. Not only are expats looking for craft makgeolli, but they are also learning to make their own.Susubori Academy, a brewing school run by professor Jo Hyo-jin of Kyunggi University, provides classes in both Korean and English from beginner to expert levels. The academy prides itself on being the only place where English speak