More than 2,000 people participated in the Sky Run marathon running up 2,917 steps to the observatory of the country s tallest building, Lotte World Tower, Lotte Property & Development (Lotte P&D) said on Sunday.
Louis Vuitton, Chanel and Hermes, three of the most popular foreign luxury goods brands here, made headlines last week when they were found to have earned hundreds of millions of dollars in profit in Korea last year only to send most of it to their headquarters abroad. According to their audit reports compiled and released by the Financial Supervisory Service, however, the three made no or little social contributions in Korea.
Local retailers are busy preparing for foreign tourists who are expected to visit in large numbers this April as the COVID-19 pandemic subsides and travelers return around the globe. This month, in particular, will see several big holidays such as “Songkran,” the Thai New Year in Thailand and Good Friday in the Philippines, thereby offering travelers from Southeast Asia the opportunity to visit Korea.
In Korea, there are three different types of temples that can be organized into groups based upon their age. In the first group, you ll find hundreds of historic temples that were built several centuries ago, if not a millennium or more. Then there is the modern type of temple built within the past 100 years.
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