Posts from South Korea

Hyundai Hyper-Matrix & Vision Hall

What do you do if you’re in charge of a multinational chaebol and have a few million dollars left in your budget to spare? You create awesomely…

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South Korea Invaded by Kpop Groups

South Korea has been invaded, not by it’s neighbor from the North, but from troops of long-legged girls in the guise of carefully manufactured Kpop groups. The small peninsula of around…

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W Seoul WOW

For the first weekend I was in South Korea I was lucky enough to be about to stay in the extremely cool “W Seoul” boutique hotel,…

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Lift Asia 09 Decompression

The Lift Asia 09 conference wrapped up last Friday afternoon on Jeju Island, South Korea and I’m glad to report that it was great. If you…

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Going to Lift Asia 09

I’m very excited to be returning to South Korea tomorrow for the fourth time in three years. As well as catching up with friends in Seoul…

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Planet Samsung

With North Korea increasingly sabre rattling and relations with the south breaking down under South Korean President Lee Myung-bak’s conservative hard-line approach things are becoming increasingly…

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Nami Island

The plan on my second day in Chuncheon was to visit a waterfall and then get a ferry to an inland island. This was all going…

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Cheongpyeongsa Temple

After arriving on the northern shore of Lake Soyang we walked through a ramshackle village in semi-hibernation (presumably closed for the winter season) and followed the…

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Chuncheon & Soyang Dam

On my fifth day in South Korea I headed east by train to Chuncheon, the capital of Gangwon province, a much quieter affair than Seoul with…

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Jackie’s Kitchen

So it turns out the Jackie Chan, the venerable Hong Kong action film star, has his own chain of restaurants serving his “favorite noodles & dim…

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