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One of the cornerstones of central Seoul's Gyeongnidan neighborhood is closing. California Kitchen & Craft Pub, or just CALI Kitchen to people whose mouths are already too full, announced last month that its U.S. Thanksgiving dinner would be its last. News of the closure hit the local community hard.
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Camarata Music is finishing off its "Three Bs of Germany" concert series of 2024, with its Christmas with Camarata concert on Dec. 7, featuring Bach's "Christmas Oratorio."
Renovations at Blackmarket, a barber shop/event space in central Seoul's multicultural Itaewon, are nearing completion, and its owner, Australian national Beau Walder, is celebrating with a special hip-hop/lo-fi event this weekend.
Self-help is a cluttered genre. From personal finance to weight loss, from spiritual connection to making friends and influencing people, any facet of life with which we could possibly need assistance has been exhaustively catered to. As times change, lessons need updating, so it's unsurprising that each year brings new titles solving classic problems with contemporary solutions. With this in mind, I had doubts about what new insights or perspectives "I Decided to Live as Me" by Kim Suhyun could offer. How surprised I was!
I made a mistake by not trying a Cuban sandwich until I got one from Tampa Sandwich Bar, sometime in 2021. Make that two mistakes: not having tried it sooner, and then when I did, getting it from the best possible place, ensuring that I'll never be satisfied with Cuban sandwiches from anywhere else.
"At the dawn of the 22nd century, after generations of harm, Earth struck back against her abusers. Rising seas swallowed entire coastal cities and ushered in an endless onslaught of storms."
Two Taiwanese bands are coming to Korea's southeast for a two-day tour of Daegu and Busan on Nov. 22 and 23.
The language of Generation Z can be confusing to older people, but a panel discussion this coming Tuesday, titled "God Life or Brat Life? Korean Women and the 21st Century," will either settle these intricacies or make them a whole lot harder to understand.
Korea has four seasons. Seoul has five royal palaces. These numbers have been set in stone for years, driven into us at every opportunity. But lately, we've been seeing mention of only four palaces in downtown Seoul.