Banyan Tree Hotels and Resorts Seoul is offering a special package to celebrate the first anniversary of the hotel opening. The package includes a one night stay, breakfast for two, a lunch set menu certificate for two available until December, and access to the outdoor pool Oasis from June 17. The package with a Deluxe Room is priced at 399,000 won. Those who stay at the hotel in June will be giv

Tourism Malaysia will hold an event in June with satellite TV’s SkyLife to promote Kuala Lumpur. The tourism office will pick two people from among those watching a film on the movie channel by lottery and offer round-trip business class flights on Air Asia X and accommodation certificates at a top-class hotel in Kuala Lumpur. The movies scheduled on SkyChoice in June include “The Unknown,” “Black

Air Busan has joined with travel agencies on Jeju Island to offer promotional packages for the island’s residents. The packages link domestic flights with international flights ― Jeju-Busan-Taipei, Jeju-Busan-Hong Kong and Jeju-Busan-Cebu. The packages will reduce time and distance for Jeju residents who had to go to Incheon International Airport even when they wanted to travel to cities that are

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, California (AP) ― Microsoft Corp. demonstrated its new operating system at the “D: All Things Digital” conference on Wednesday, a full version of Windows that will operate on tablets and personal computers.For now, it’s called Windows 8. Executives said that as mobile devices have gotten more powerful, they are able to run the full version of Windows.The operating system is “t

Hyundai Heavy Industries announced Wednesday that it received orders for two drill ships from the U.S. oil well driller Rowan Companies Inc.The latest contract, worth $1.12 billion, pushes up the number of orders for drill ships Hyundai Heavy has won so far this year to nine.The combined value of the contracts the company has won so far is $5 billion, the company said.The orders also include optio

Ahn Hyun-soo, a three-time Olympic short track gold medalist, left for Russia on Wednesday to extend his career, with his sights set on the 2014 Winter Games.“It has finally hit me,” Ahn said at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul. “I am worried and yet have high expectations. I will go there and train hard.”Ahn, who is 25, said he will be training with the Russian national team in Moscow