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…
Read articleSouth 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…
Read articleW 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,…
Read articleLift 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…
Read articleGoing 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…
Read articlePlanet 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…
Read articleNami 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…
Read articleCheongpyeongsa 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…
Read articleChuncheon & 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…
Read articleJackie’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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