‘Very Vary Berry’ at Banyan Banyan Tree Club & Spa Seoul is launching the “Very Vary Berry” dessert buffet at Chez Blanc, located on the lobby floor, until March 1. The buffet offers 19 different varieties of the hotel’s favorite sweets, Mont St. Clair’s desserts, with a seasonal strawberry flair. The list includes macarons with strawberry ganache, strawberry cream Mont Blancs, choux and éclairs filled with strawberry cream and cream cheese.The “Very Vary Berry” buffet is open Monday to Thursday

Every Thursday evening, a group of 20 people gather at a hands-on food lab on the 10th floor of a quiet building in Jongno, central Seoul. The lab of Makgeolli School is clean, with five smooth countertops surrounded by barstools, and earthen pots and ingredients stacked against the walls. There are huge sinks for washing rice, pots for steaming it, huge earthen jars for fermentation, and smaller jars and bottles labeled with the names of herbs and medicinal ingredients for flavoring. Students h

Kwangjuyo CEO seeks to change paradigm, move the world with premium liquor

There’s an ancient folktale that tells the story of a monkey who blushed and smiled uncontrollably after gorging on a fermented apple he found on the ground. After a farmer noticed the monkey’s pleasant reaction to eating the old piece of fruit, he wondered if humans could enjoy the same blissful side effect, which led to the invention of alcohol. Visitors learn the history of traditional Korean liquor products at the Sansawon gallery in Pocheon, Gyeonggi Province. (Park Hyun-koo/The Korea Heral

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) -- Satellite photos obtained by the Associated Press confirm what church leaders and Middle East preservationists had feared:  The oldest Christian monastery in Iraq has been reduced to a field of rubble, yet another victim of the Islamic State group's relentless destruction of heritage sites it considers heretical. 　St. Elijah’s Monastery stood as a place of worship for 1,400 years, including most recently for U.S. troops. In earlier millennia, generations of monks tucked candl

General manager Patrick Verove says he was destined to work at hotels by the sea

TOKYO (AFP) - Kiyoshi Kimura‘s ear-to-ear grin is tough to miss in Japan -- it’s splashed across ubiquitous billboards advertising his nationwide sushi chain.　But the self-styled “Tuna King” isn't smiling about plans to move Tokyo’s famous Tsukiji market, the world's biggest fish emporium, and warns that its unique identity is at risk of being destroyed.　Kimura’s office is a block away from the historic site where in 2013 he famously slapped down a record $1.8 million bid at the traditional New

PHNOM PENH (AFP) - A French museum has returned the head of a statue of a Hindu god that was taken from a Cambodian temple 130 years ago, the Culture Ministry said Tuesday.　The head of the Harihara statue, a combined representation of the Hindu gods Vishnu and Shiva, was returned by France‘s Guimet Museum on Saturday at the kingdom’s request, according to Thai Noraksathya, a spokesman for the Ministry of Culture.  The head of the Harihara statue is seen at the national museum in Phnom Penh on Tu

Song Sung-gak, president and CEO of the Korea Creative Content Agency, said the agency will seek to discover and enter new overseas markets this year with “new big killer content” created through the convergence of emerging technologies and other content from areas such as health care and tourism.　“In this new era, which I call the ‘multi avant-garde age,’ where everything changes very fast and things are converging, we cannot create new things the way we used to,” Song said at a press conferenc