A nighttime shot of North and South Korea. The photo was taken from the International Space Station (ISS) on 1/30/2014. The article mentions that Seoul has over 25 million people living in the greater metro area, and it shows.
Monthly Archives: February 2014
Easy to Learn Korean 976 – Non-communicable disease.
Korean-style Japanese pork cutlet.
A breaded and deep-fried pork cutlet at 홍익 돈까스 (Hong-ik Don-kkaseu) in Yongin city, Gyeonggi Province. Includes rice and udon noodles cooked in olive oil sauce. 8,900Won. Hong-ik is a chain restaurant with many locations in Gyeonggi and a branch in Seoul’s Dongdaemun neighborhood.
The pork cutlets are handmade and the deep fry oil is changed twice a day. Get there early as there’s usually a line during lunch and dinner hours.
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Hotel and restaurant buffet food.
Attended an 80th birthday buffet-party at the Riverside Hotel in Sinsa-dong, Gangnam Seoul. Turning 50 and 75 are big events in the US, but 70 and 80 are major celebrations here.
If you visit Korea, have brunch at one of the buffet restaurants. While not cheap, there’s a variety of food unlike I’ve seen back home. (55,000Won per person;$51USD). In general, buffets run from 25,000Won to 75,000Won. Lunch buffets are generally cheaper than dinner buffets and major credit cards get 10-15% discounts at chain buffets.
This buffet included Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Indian, Western, and lots of seafood. I enjoy the bite size desserts, especially green tea flavored cakes, pudding, and macaroons. The bilberry gelato (similar to blueberry) and grapefruit gelato were amazing.
This plates contains: blueberry pizza (a first for me), raw marinated beef, tuna sushi, bbq lamb, naan with curry, and Chinese-style chicken.
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80 South Koreans meet separated family members for first and last time this weekend.
The first of this week’s Inter-Korean reunions between North and South Korean family members ended today in Mount Gumkang, North Korea. 80 eldery South Koreans met 180 North Korean family members for the first and last time in over 60 years. A total of 10 hours were spent together over the three-day period before saying their final goodbyes.
A second group of 361 SK’s and 88 NK’s will begin a 3-day meet up on Sunday. This is the fifth set of reunions between the North and South.
