Korean drinkers enjoy bomb cocktails. Beer and whisky bomb has a longer history, but more people today enjoy beer and soju bomb, called ‘so-maek.’ There’s no nickname for whisky bomb cocktail. In many company dinners, a line of so-maek bombs are ‘manufactured’ for the first toast, (or maybe the seco
Korean drinkers enjoy bomb cocktails. Beer and whisky bomb has a longer history, but more people today enjoy beer and soju bomb, called ‘so-maek.’ There’s no nickname for whisky bomb cocktail. In many company dinners, a line of so-maek bombs are ‘manufactured’ for the first toast, (or maybe the seco
Grilled pork belly, or Samgyeopsal-gui in Korean, is doubtlessly no.1 preference for most Koreans when they dine out with friends, family, company colleagues, and perhaps foreign tourists. Samgyeopsal is grilled on the table and cut with scissors in bite sizes. You may wrap the grilled meat in lettu
Listed in the Michelin Guide Korea, Sung Sim Dang is a successful bakery cafe based in Daejeon, a major city of Korea. Usually crowded with customers, some from other cities, who wait in lines for the bakery’s bestseller to come out. Fried soboro, which has been the bakery’s best-selling item for 30
Do you know there is a pub that predicted today’s summit between North Korea and the U.S? A popular Korean brewery, “The Amazing Brewing Company” has three pub locations in Seoul. They have been attracting a lot of extra attention with their unique named beer, ‘Rocket Man’. A delicious 8.5% dark bee
South Korean semiconductor company SK Hynix recently held a FailCon, or Failure Conference, where four employees stood in front of their co-workers and shared tales of their biggest failures, and how they later overcame them. In most companies, failure is met with reproach or simply hidden from view
As of the end of 2017, there are approximately 4,000 bakery shops open in Seoul, one quarter of which are franchises of the two major bakery company. Paris Baguette has 758 stores (including a few company operating shops), and Tour les Jours has 257 stores (including a few company operating shops).
Jang Jo-kyung’s parents left Korea for the Spanish island of Las Palmas when he was only 9 months old. In 2013, he moved to Los Angeles and created a social media group for other Spanish-speaking Koreans, but with the hallyu wave sweeping the world, before long the group was full of more South Ameri
Founded in 2010, EcoCreation is a Korean company running an environmentally friendly pyrolysis plant capable of extracting heating oil from waste plastics, which are usually otherwise buried or incinerated. Last year, they earned 3 billion won (~$2.8 million) in sales, and expect to make at least 10
Korea’s Rural Development Administration has announced that it has laid the groundwork for handling large amounts of food waste using soldier fly larvae. Soldier fly larvae have a voracious appetite, which allows them to be used for disposing a range of waste products. They can eat and break down ab
During the next month, South Korean telecommunications giant KT will be holding a literary competition exclusively for AI (Artificial Intelligence). The competition is open to any individual or company developing an AI, and they will be given a specific algorithm which the AI will follow along with
When Korean President Moon Jae-In attended the 2016 memorial ceremony of the Gwangju Democratization Movement he gained a lot of attention for the worn-out shoes he wore, which many felt exemplified his image as a ‘common man’. Moon bought this specific pair of shoes back in 2012 from a social enter
