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Fraser Place Central-Seoul opens rooftop bar

Fraser Place Central-Seoul’s Panorama Lounge and Bar / Courtesy of Fraser Place Central-SeoulBy Kim Se-jeongFraser Place Central-Seoul opened Panorama Lounge and Bar on its rooftop earlier this month and is running a drinks promotion until Oct. 31.The drinks in the promotion include single malt whiskies and Shakerato, among others.“I always found it to be a special privilege to have a property with a rooftop lounge and terrace that offers such great views over the Seoul cityscape,” Peter Tangl, the general manager of the serviced apartments, said.“Special thanks goes to our long-term residents who have braved all the inconveniences a renovation of such scale brings about, and remained loyal to Fraser Place Central. Thank you as well to all guests who keep supporting Fraser Place Central after many years.”The opening of the bar is part of Fraser Place Central’s renovation in celebration of its 10th anniversary next year. The hotel began renovations on rooms and other facilities in February. They’re expected to be finished by November.The

Sep 24, 2015By Kim Se-jeong
Fraser Place Central-Seoul opens rooftop bar
Travel & Food

Grand Ambassador celebrates 60th anniversary with museum

Grand Ambassador Seoul’s museum is located behind the hotel building in Jangchung-dong, Seoul. / Courtesy of Grand Ambassador SeoulBy Kim Se-jeong In celebration of its 60th anniversary, Grand Ambassador Seoul has opened a museum that revisits the hotel company’s history.The museum is located behind the hotel building in Jangchung-dong, Seoul. The hotel group’s founder, Suh Sang-cheon, who passed away in 1992, used to reside in the building. The idea of turning the historic house into a museum was conceived almost a decade ago, and renovation began two years ago.“This is a great occasion for us to look back to how far we have come,” according to the hotel’s statement. “We would like to share this auspicious occasion with our guests.”The second floor of the museum has a small library.The two-story building is open to visitors and is accessible through a curvy, steep and narrow corridor behind the hotel property. Traditional soy sauce crocks welcome guests as they enter the gate, ushering them into the museum.The museum is open to th

Sep 24, 2015By Kim Se-jeong
Grand Ambassador celebrates 60th anniversary with museum
Travel & Food

HOTEL LOBBY

 Conrad Seoul’s 37 Bar presents “Glam Night” every Wednesday for women only.Between 5 p.m. and 9 p.m., female guests can have a complimentary drink and then get discounts on all other drinks ― wine, beer or cocktails. A bottle of domestic beer costs 7,000 won and imported beer 9,000 won. The bar’s DJ provides entertainment, and one woman will win a small gift each week at the lucky draw.For more information and reservations, call (02)6137-7110-1.    W Seoul-Walkerhill’s signature restaurant, “Kitchen,” is launching a fashion collaboration dining program in October featuring award-winning menswear designer Kwon Mun-soo.“Gourmet Couture” will have five-course dinner menus inspired by Kwon’s style prepared by Kitchen chefs. The menu will include shrimp and black rice brioche salad with flower garnish; black sesame-crusted and grilled halibut with black sesame risotto and yellow saffron cream; “red paprika cleanser” as refreshments between courses; and prime beef striploin steak with blu

Sep 24, 2015By Kim Se-jeong
HOTEL LOBBY
South Korea

Seoul seeks to remove signs with English errors

By Kim Se-jeong The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) has launched another campaign to remove street signs that contain English language errors.The SMG opened the online campaign Thursday and invited people to submit photos of such signs. Included are those at subway stations, bus stops and tourist destinations among others.Anyone residing in Seoul can send pictures of the signs to visitseoul1@seoul.go.kr until Oct. 24, and the city government will award prizes including Apple watches and gift certificates to a selected few.“It is for the convenience of foreigners who visit the city,” an SMG official said.This campaign is the second of its kind following the first one last year when the SMG changed 86 signs.“Through this campaign, I hope foreign visitors will feel more at ease while traveling in the city,” the official said.The most common mistakes involve Romanization, translation and spelling, according to the official.For example, Seoul Namsan Traditional Theater in Chungmuro, central Seoul, is written as “Seoul Namsan Gukakdang” on a sig

Sep 24, 2015By Kim Se-jeong
South Korea

Students learn about sex slaves with new workbooks

Students at Yonhi Middle School in Seoul learn about sexual slavery during World War II with study material produced by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, Tuesday. The ministry put out the material to raise awareness of the issue among students. / YonhapBy Kim Se-jeong Thirty-two students at Yonhi Middle School in Seoul had a special history class on sexual slavery during World War II, using special workbooks, Tuesday.The workbooks, along with a three-minute video, were released as part of the government’s initiative to raise the students’ awareness of the subject.The ninth graders watched the video, which was followed by a brief lecture from a teacher and then worked on questions from the book during their 50-minute class.“It is important for students like you to know what happened and understand this terrible part of our history,” Gender Equality and Family Minister Kim Hee-jung told the students ahead of the class.“Sexual Slavery is an ongoing issue related to rights of women around the world, and your role will be important in solving i

Sep 22, 2015By Kim Se-jeong
South Korea

Police: Murder suspect wanted to kill 28 more

Kim Il-gon, center, a kidnapping and murder suspect, tries to attack police officers with a knife as they attempt to catch him on a street in eastern Seoul, Thursday. Kim, who allegedly abducted a woman from a discount store parking lot and later killed her, had a list of 28 people on whom he planned to take revenge, police said. / YonhapBy Kim Se-jeong Police said Friday that Kim Il-gon, 48, who was apprehended the previous day for allegedly kidnapping and killing a woman, had a list of 28 people he planned to seek revenge against.According to officers at the Seongdong Police Station in eastern Seoul, they found two pieces of paper with 28 names in Kim’s pockets.His intended victims’ professions and addresses were also listed, including those of a judge who had tried him, a detective who had investigated him and a female restaurant owner, police said.Some on the list were written with only professions as Kim did not remember their names. For a nurse, he said she was not nice to him.“He also muttered to himself, ‘I need to kill them all,&rs

Sep 18, 2015By Kim Se-jeong
Police: Murder suspect wanted to kill 28 more
South Korea

Saudi Arabia eyes Korea's medical waste management system

By Kim Se-jeongAbdulaziz bin Omar Al JasserSaudi Arabia’s environmental minister hopes to improve his country’s medical waste management through cooperation with Korea.Minister Abdulaziz bin Omar Al Jasser, who was on a weeklong tour of Korea, visited the Korea Environmental Corp. (KEC) on Thursday, a day after he signed an agreement with his counterpart, Yoon Seong-kyu, on medical waste management cooperation. He and his delegation return home Saturday.“We’ve got a large quantity of medical waste,” Al Jasser, minister for meteorology and environment, said. “There are companies (to treat it), but it is reaching maximum capacity. We’re interested in getting technologies from Korea.”Saudi Arabia sterilizes medical waste with pressure and heat before burying it. In Korea, all medical waste is incinerated. Air pollutants are generated during the process, including dioxin and nitrogen, and the incineration facilities filter them before release.“If the filtering can meet Saudi’s air quality regulation on dioxin, we will go ah

Sep 18, 2015By Kim Se-jeong
Saudi Arabia eyes Korea's medical waste management system
South Korea

Changwon street to have precast pavers with 23,000 foreigners' names

By Kim Se-jeong A street in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province, will be paved with 23,000 colorful precast pavers with the names of foreigners written on them.The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) and the city government opened “Sangsang-gil” (Imagination Street) leading to the Chang-dong Art Village in the center of the city, Wednesday, with KTO CEO Jung Chang-soo and Changwon Mayor Ahn Sang-soo participating in the ceremony.The project is part of the KTO’s initiative to promote tourism in the provincial cities.The KTO collected applications in a “Write Your Name in Korea” campaign. Almost 300,000 applied from all around the world, including 26,000 Malaysians, 56,000 Filipinos, 26,000 Americans and 10,000 Chinese, and chose 23,000.On the 155 meter street, only 30 meters have so far been paved with some 6,000 pavers. The rest will be done by the end of October, said a KTO official.“I am excited to be here and see my name written on the street,” said Nida Nibilah, 20, an electrical engineering student from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.She was p

Sep 16, 2015By Kim Se-jeong
South Korea

Former sex slave calls for Park to press Abe

Kang Il-chul, one of the women forced to serve as a sex slave for Japanese soldiers, urged President Park Geun-hye to keep pressuring Japan for an apology and compensation.By Kim Se-jeongGWANGJU ― Kang Il-chul, 87, one of the women forced to serve as a sex slave for Japanese soldiers before and during World War II, urged President Park Geun-hye to keep pressuring Japan for an apology and compensation. “I want her to stand firm and clear about an apology and compensation. Unless we demand it strongly and consistently, Japan will never do so,” she told a group of journalists who visited her at a home in Gwangju, Gyeonggi Province, Monday.Leaders of China, Korea and Japan will hold a summit this year ― either in late October or early November. Park and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe are likely to meet separately during this. The Japanese military forced almost 200,000 women into sexual slavery during the World War II. Most of the victims were Korean, along with Chinese, Filipino, Indonesian and Dutch. Abe has been denying the accusation, saying the women joined

Sep 15, 2015By Kim Se-jeong
South Korea

Insurers ordered to pay plastic surgery victim

By Kim Se-jeongThe family of a woman who died due to medical malpractice during plastic surgery is entitled to accidental death insurance money, a court ruled Monday.The Seoul Central District Court ruled against two insurance companies in favor of the bereaved family of a woman named Lee, who died while receiving plastic surgery on her breasts in January last year.During the surgery at a clinic, she had difficulty breathing and lost consciousness. She was transferred to a general hospital but died 10 days later from multiple organ failure.Lee was insured for accidental death with two companies ― one policy was for 100 million won, the other for 200 million won.The insurance companies refused to pay, claiming the policies covered only “death from injuries from accidental causes” and that this did not apply because Lee consented to the surgery.But the court ruled that medical malpractice was included.“In case of an insurant’s injury from medical malpractice, although the person has consented to the surgery or treatment, it does not mean the perso

Sep 14, 2015By Kim Se-jeong
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