HOTEL LOBBY

Shilla Stay Gwanghwamun will celebrate its grand opening on Dec. 22.

With 339 rooms in a 19-story building overlooking Gwanghwamun, Jogye Temple and the street of Samcheong-dong in Seoul, this is Shilla Stay’s seventh property to open.

The accommodation is close to three stations _ less than 10 minutes by foot from Jonggak, Gwanghwamun and Anguk stations. Shilla Stay will offer a special room rate for its grand opening between Dec. 22 and Jan. 31, 2016, with the starting price at 181,000 won. Taxes and service charges are not included. For more information and reservations, call (02)2230-3000 or visit

www.shillastay.com

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Renaissance Seoul Hotel’s two winter packages offer guests a chance to help children in need during the holiday season.

The hotel will donate 10 percent of its room package profits to the Purme Foundation, a local NGO helping children. In return, all the package guests will receive a Ssamin Block toy as a gift.

The first package includes a one-night stay in a deluxe room, complimentary breakfast for two, a room service order for two glasses of Gluehwein, free WiFi, a Ssamin Block toy, and access to the indoor swimming pool and sauna. The cost

is 220,000 won without tax or service charges.

For the second package costing 230,000 won, a room service order of 10 pieces of buffalo wings is added.

The packages are available until Feb. 29, 2016. For more information or reservations, call (02) 2222-8500.

Hyatt Regency Jeju presents Festive Season Kids Village from Dec. 18 to Jan. 2, 2016. A cooking class will be held for children, and one of the hotel chefs will demonstrate how to make Yule log cake. Participants can take the cake home after the session. The program is 40,000 won per child, but for hotel guests, it is 35,000 won. For more information and reservations, call (064)733-1234 or visit jeju.regency.hyatt.com.

Sheraton Grand Incheon’s Japanese restaurant Miyabi presents its winter special menu featuring swellfish until the end of January. Served at both lunch and dinner, the meal will include soup, porridge with pine seeds, walnut and ginkgo nut, sashimi, and grilled or steamed swellfish with refined rice wine. The dinner set costs 75,000 won per person. For those who are not a fan of sushi or sashimi, Miyabi prepares roasted fish with light seasoning as an alternative. The restaurant also offers new sushi bento for businesspeople in the neighborhood during lunch hours. The lunch box contains abalone, eel, sea bream and codfish. The lunch box costs 50,000 won. For more information and reservations, call (032) 835-1714.