Posts Tagged ‘Korea’
In collaboration with SK Telecom, Korea’s largest telecom provider, Starbucks has opened the world’s first IT Starbucks yesterday. The store is completely wired with SK Telecom’s latest wireless technology allowing customers to order and pay from their seats. Tables have a touch screen monitor that relays order information to and from the main service counter [...]
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Tags: Asian, Coffee, Consumer Trends, Korea, Retail Trends, seoul, SK Telecom, Starbucks, Technology
Libeskind Projects in Korea
Having completed the ‘Tangent’ building for the Hyundai Development Company Headquarters in Seoul’s Gangnam District in 2005, world renowned architect Daniel Libeskind is set to make his mark on two separate projects on the peninsula.
Currently under construction with a projected completion date of 2011, the Haeundae Udong Hyundai I’ Park will be a luxury housing and shopping complex [...]
Filed under: Architecture, Busan, Creativity, Culture, Design, Development, Hotels, Incheon, Lifestyle, Living, Real Estate, Shopping, Travel, economy | Leave a Comment
Tags: Architecture, Busan, Daniel Libeskind, Development, Hyundai I'Park, Incheon, Korea, Lifestyle, Real Estate
The 2008 International Medical Travel Conference will be held in Seoul from November 19 – 21. The event is scheduled to be held at COEX and is currently sponsored in part by the Korean Tourism Organization and the Korean Health Industry Development Institute.
This is exciting news as it testifies to both the quality of health [...]
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Tags: Beauty, COEX, Cosmetic Surgery, Government, IMTC, International Healthcare, Korea, Leisure, Lifestyle, Luxury, Medical Tourism, Medical Travel Conference, Overseas Healthcare, Plastic Surgery, seoul, Travel
Enter6: Something to Rave About?
If you’ve been shopping in Seoul, then you understand why some people might think that all the shopping centers were developed or owned by the same people. Until now the majority of new shopping centers in Seoul have looked the same as each other, take HiHarriet in Myoungdong, iPark Mall in Yongsan, and [...]
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Tags: Lifestyle, Branding, Travel, Fashion, Shopping, seoul, Real Estate, Development, CGV, Emart, Myoungdong, Retail, Tourism, Korea, Dongdaemun, Shopping Center, Transportation, Korean Fashion, Enter6, iPark, Yongsan
America is not the only nation finding its citizens to make sacrifices in their day-to-day lives as the global economic woes influence the cost of daily living expenses. Families in the most expensive cities in Asia: Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Seoul are also being forced to change long standing shopping habits.
As the price of goods continue [...]
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Tags: Asian Consumers, Asian Housewives, Branding, Consumer Behavior, Consumer Trends, Cost of Living, HomeEver, Hong Kong, Housewives, Korea, Korean Consumer, Korean Economy, Korean Housewives, Lifestyle, Marketing, seoul, Tokyo
If Songdo City and Incheon can raise the $300 million dollars needed, you might be able to visit the Guggenheim Museum in Songdo City in 2013. Although still in the negotiation process, the Guggeheim Museum based in New York has been reported to be in favor of opening a new museum in Songdo City near [...]
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Tags: Art, Asia, Culture, Development, Government, Guggenheim, Incheon, Incheon Bridge, Incheon International Airport, Korea, Lifestyle, Museum, seoul, Songdo City, Travel
It has been announced that neither Apple nor Nokia will be able to sell mobile phones this year in Korea. The main problem preventing the two phone makers from entering the Korean market is that phones sold in Korea are required to comply with WIPI (Wireless Internet Platform for Interoperability), a law passed by [...]
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Tags: Apple, Asia, Blackberry, Branding, Electronics, Korea, KTF, LG, Marketing, Mobile Phones, Nokia, Samsung, seoul, SK, Telecom
The Seoul City Government has announced that Seoul City Taxi’s will soon get their own color. This is part of the city government’s steps to rebrand the city as international center for travel, business, and art/design. Similar to New York’s yellow cabs and Hong Kong’s Red taxis, Seoul aims to add to the [...]
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Tags: Branding, City Branding, Government, Hong Kong, Korea, Lifestyle, New York, seoul, Taxis, Tourism, Urban Planning
seoulplay’s Winter Raymond will be featured in the upcoming September 2008 issue of Elle Magazine USA. Elle caught up with Winter on one of her recent trips to New York and sat down to talk with her about her life as a young professional, yet stylish woman who runs seoulplay and is a regular [...]
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Tags: Elle, Fashion, Korea, Lifestyle, Magazine, New York, seoul, Winter Raymond
Have been meaning to make a post about Korean Kidults for awhile, but finally today as I was taking the subway I decided that the post could not wait any longer. For those of you not familiar with the term, kidults, it is a (somewhat old term now) term referring to the adult version [...]
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Tags: Branding, Consumers, Electronics, Gadgets, Korea, Lifestyle, Marketing, MP3, PMP, Techies, Technology
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