Korea

Potable Wednesday: Bacchus-D

David: So after a bit of a PW hiatus, we’re happily bringing you Potable Wednesday on a bright Sunday…

Lotus Lantern Festival

Festival season is here. Any given weekend, one can expect to run across festivals for ceramics, green barley…

Weekend Adventure: Icheon Pottery Festival

On Saturday, we stimulated the Korean craft economy by visiting the Ceramics Festival in Icheon, about an hour’s drive South of Seoul.

The city of Icheon had arranged that if the Embassy could provide 20 people wanting to come…

Yeouido Park. Cutest Place on Earth? Maybe Yes.

Daytrip to Chuncheon

Seoul is so big and has so many things to do that it takes a fair bit of planning and ambition to get out of the city. We do want to see more of Korea though, so we set aside a Sunday last month for a day trip to Chuncheon, a city about 40 miles northeast of Seoul. The Chuncheon area is very…

Potable Wednesday: Banana Milk

Kate: The time has come to introduce you all to an unexpected but excellent little Korean specialty…