Four South Korean Buddhist temples were recommended for addition to the UNESCO World Heritage list, the Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA) said Friday.South Korea submitted an application last year for seven mountain temples to be listed. The list includes Beopju on Mount Songni, Tongdo on Mount

Genji, Millennium Seoul Hilton’s Japanese restaurant, is pleased to announce a special promotion in May that features a daily fresh fish from the market.Every early morning, the chefs will head to the market to secure the freshest and finest catches from incoming fisherman. Those fish will be used t

In celebration of Children’s Day on Saturday, May 5, Café 395 will host a special Children’s Day buffet. In addition to Café 395’s bountiful buffet offerings, on Children’s Day, there will be several additional stalls offering child-friendly foods.On the Café 395 terrace, additi

Cilantro Deli, Millennium Seoul Hilton’s delicatessen, is launching a new menu of sandwiches and salads, ideal for take-out for eating on the go or picnicking along beautiful Mt. Namsan!Some of the new menu items include: Milton BLT wrap (KW9,000); pork belly and vegetables wrap (KW8,000); smoked du

By Publisher Lee Kyung-sik with Editorial Director Lee Kap-soo, Reporter Won HwiAmbassador Khamsouay Keodalavong of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic said, “As you may be aware, this year is the ‘Visit Laos Year 2018’ and the Lao Government has set up and proceeds 18 main activities in every prov

CJ CGV, South Korea's largest multiplex chain, has come under criticism for a promotional event asking customers to dress and speak like "foreigners" for discounts, with many voicing concerns that it could prompt borderline racism.The world's fifth-largest multiplex theater company announc

Olympic double gold medalist Choi Min-jeong has captured two titles at the short track world championships. Choi won the women's 500-meter and 1,500-meter gold medals at the International Skating Union (ISU) World Short Track Speed Skating Championships in Montreal on Saturday (local time). Choi

South Korean ice sledge hockey captain Han Min-su said Saturday he is happy to retire from the ice with the Paralympic Games bronze medal.South Korea beat Italy 1-0 in the ice hockey bronze medal game of the PyeongChang Paralympics at Gangneung Hockey Centre in Gangneung, Gangwon Province. It was th

South Korea failed to advance to the wheelchair curling final at the PyeongChang Winter Paralympics after losing 8-6 to Norway on Friday.The South Korean team of Seo Soon-seok, Bang Min-ja, Cha Jae-goan, Jung Seung-won and Lee Dong-ha was defeated by Norway in a thrilling extra-end semifinal contest

The 2018 PyeongChang Winter Paralympic Games kicked off on Friday with an opening ceremony emphasizing passion and coexistence.Taking "Passion Moves Us" as its theme, the opening ceremony of the first Winter Paralympics in South Korea took place at the 35,000-seat Olympic Stadium in PyeongChang, G

The 2018 PyeongChang Winter Paralympic Games kicked off on Friday with an opening ceremony emphasizing passion and coexistence.Taking "Passion Moves Us" as its theme, the opening ceremony of the first Winter Paralympics in South Korea took place at the 35,000-seat Olympic Stadium in PyeongChang, G

South Korea's wheelchair curling team for the PyeongChang Winter Paralympics said Friday it wants to write a success story like the women's curling team did at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics.The women's curling team earned silver at the Feb. 9-25 Olympics and became a global sensation w

Veteran South Korean skater Lee Seung-hoon became the inaugural Olympic champion in men's mass start speed skating, at the PyeongChang Winter Games on Saturday.He made a last-minute spurt to cross the finish line first in the men's mass start final held in the Gangneung Oval. Belgium's B

South Korea defeated Japan on Friday and advanced to the PyeongChang Olympics women's curling finals for the first time.In the semifinals held at the Pyeongchang Curling Centre, the quartet led by skip, or captain, Kim Eun-jung, pulled off an 8-7 victory over Japan, which gave the only loss to t

Four out of five South Korean male speed skaters made their Winter Olympic debut at PyeongChang 2018 this month, and to a man, they said they couldn't have asked for a better learning experience.And they mostly learned their lessons the hard way.Lim Hyo-jun, 21, was the only South Korean man to

South Korean short track speed skater Choi Min-jeong became the host country's first double gold medalist at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics on Tuesday, and took a step closer to a rare milestone.Choi helped South Korea to the gold medal in the women's 3,000-meter relay, at Gangneung Ice Are

South Korea's speed skating sprinter Lee Sang-hwa, the defending Olympic champion, won silver in the women's 500 meter race at the PyeongChang Winter Games on Sunday.In the event's finals at the Gangneung Oval, Lee clocked in at 37.33, 0.39 second behind winner Nao Kodaira of Japan, who

South Korea's Yun Sung-bin, who won the gold medal in the men's skeleton event at the PyeongChang Winter Games, said Friday he focused on winning by imagining himself on the Olympic podium.Yun won gold with a combined time of 3 minutes, 20.55 seconds after four heats at the Olympic Sliding C

South Korean men's hockey players entered their first Olympic match against the Czech Republic on Thursday with a chip on their shoulders, perhaps the only group of people inside Gangneung Hockey Centre who believed South Korea could win this game.On paper, this shouldn't have been as close

Host South Korea wasted little time picking up its first gold medal of these PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games, as short track speed skater Lim Hyo-jun won the men's 1,500-meter title. Lim crossed the finish line in an Olympic record time of 2:10.485 at Gangneung Ice Arena in Gangneung, the sub-h