With the parliamentary elections two days away, rival parties headed to key battleground areas in Seoul and the nearby metropolitan regions Monday as they made their final pitch to voters after a record high turnout in the early voting.
Band izarre, malicious attacks sabotage against foreign-owned businesses in Korea turn out not to be so rare. After an article last month detailed the coordinated negative-offensive reviews on Instagram against Tom s Pizza, Brandon Harkins, the owner of Aqua Duck Pizza Pub in eastern Seoul s Majang-dong, shared his own story of how a curse was placed on him, and what he did to overcome this mystical attack.
Lighting at Cheonggye Plaza Cheonggye Plaza is lit up in festival lights until the end of this month from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Visitors can drop by and see the area illuminated with a giant Christmas tree set up along the Cheonggye Stream, which runs from west to east starting from the plaza. There is no admission fee. Parking and public bathrooms are not separately available. Visitors are encouraged to use the subway.