The hotel launched its “Spring Picnic Packages” in celebration of the arrival of the new season from March 1 to June 30. The package includes Grand Room accommodation, a picnic set including fresh sandwiches for two people from the Deli, specially designed for a spring walk on Namsan Mountain. Guests are also invited to enjoy complimentary use of the hotel’s gym and indoor swimming pool during their stay, along with a 50 percent discount on the sauna. The picnic package is available only on week

Low-rise commercial buildings remodeled with stylish designs

Seoul must be one of the most dynamic cities in the world with its nooks and crannies changing every day. “Whenever I come to Seoul, I am surprised by how much it has changed. You don’t see the same shops, buildings and sometimes, the hills, roads and streams anymore,” said Kim Jong-nye, a U.S. resident who visits Korea every two or three years.A report on the changing face of Seoul was released by the Seoul Museum of History earlier this week, highlighting the everyday lives of ordinary people

MIAMI (AP) ― Stephenie Meyer’s “The Host’’ doesn’t have much in common with her Twilight series, except maybe the potential for a franchise.Meyer is working on a sequel to the 2008 novel she began writing as an escape from the editing of “Eclipse,’’ the third book in the Twilight vampire saga. And now that it too has reached the big screen, she’s got more books in mind.“Once you’ve created characters that have life to them, unless you kill them all, you know where their stories go. You’re always

Korea prepares for designation of expansive tidal flats as UNESCO World Heritage Site

A man is approaching a woman as shown in picture 1.It is very important to make room between you and the harasser in this situation.Stare and give a warning look at the opponent while watching the opponent’s movement.To make room between the opponent and yourself, widen your stance by moving your leg furthest from the opponent. Next put the hand closest to the opponent on your hip to create an angle that your elbow is close to so you are able to block the harasser as shown in picture 2. The hand

When renowned violist Richard Yongjae O’Neill and pianist Lim Dong-hyek started playing on Dec. 12 at 9 p.m., it wasn’t just the some 100 people at the concert hall of NHN headquarters in Gyeonggi Province listening. There were more than 30,000 others paying attention to Rachmaninoff, Schubert, Bach and some famous film scores through Naver, the nation’s largest portal site. The artists were performing for the Naver music section, which holds concerts on its own and broadcasts them live on the w

A world of Buddhist tradition and modernity at the Hwajeong Museum

YouTube, the video Web site of Google Inc., on Tuesday launched a channel that incorporates video clips posted by Asian musicians, including Korean pop idols SHINee and Super Junior.The “A-pop Channel” features a top 20 list of the most popular video clips that highlight pop idols in Korea, Japan and China, as well as a calendar that posts information for online fan meetings and events, according to the YouTube’s Korea blog. Users can also view the top 20 list by country, K-pop, J-pop and C-pop,

Overall happiness and satisfaction with life tend to increase with age, but a person‘s well-being depends on when he or she was born, U.S. researchers say.Angelina R. Sutin of the Florida State University College of Medicine conducted the study while at the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health. Sutin and colleagues used two large-scale longitudinal studies -- the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey for t