Seoul, 5th Most Expensive City in the World

28Jul08

Seoul slipped two places in the rankings to come in as the world’s 5th most expensive city according to the UK-based Mercer’s annual report. To see the details of the report, see here. Just two years ago, Seoul ranked as the world’s second most expensive city in the world coming in behind only Moscow. Since [...]

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Seoul Taxis To Get Their Own Color

14Jul08

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 list of [...]

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seoulplay to be featured in Elle Magazine

11Jul08

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 on [...]

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