중앙데일리
Politics List
뉴스 리스트
Playing it safe on Euljiro Street
Leaning on a steel safe the size of a home refrigerator at Jungang Safe in downtown Seoul’s Euljiro 4-ga, Park Min-gyu, 31, was bargaining for a deal. “I’ll give you 250,000 won ($188.39) [for the safe]. Come on sajangnim [owner], I’ll pay in cas…
Nov 10,2008
Samsung heads into new frontier
The faces inside Korea’s conglomerates is a weekly series about key figures in major conglomerates to help readers understand Korea’s business world. Korea, which has the world’s 13th-largest economy, may not be well known in some parts of the wo…
Nov 10,2008
Hyundai-Kia’s team of leaders gears up
The JoongAng Daily will carry a weekly series about key figures in major conglomerates to help readers better understand Korea’s business world. The Hyundai–Kia Automotive Group is regarded by analysts as a company for which the current glo…
Nov 03,2008
Business slowing on Watch Road as time ticks by
Yellow watches are popular in times of economic recession; a bullish economy favors platinum. This is a trend that Jung Kwun-chun, chairman of the Jongno 4-ga stores association and owner of the watch wholesale shop TM Watch, has learned from sell…
Nov 03,2008
This tasty corner of Bangsan Market stirs up Seoul’s do-it-yourself bakers
Flatbed trucks, visitors and hawkers crowd Bangsan Market in central Seoul’s Euljiro 4-ga. Most of the shops sell wholesale wallpaper or flooring but one part specializes in the sweet and mellow. This is where shoppers come for items ranging from g…
Oct 27,2008
Need a lawyer? Check out Seocho-dong
Need a lawyer? Check out Seocho-dong There’s no excuse for not being able to find legal representation in Seoul, because one third of the lawyers practicing in the capital have offices jammed into one southern neighborhood - Seocho-dong. The road b…
Oct 20,2008
Light shop owners swell with pride over products
In the early 1990s, Kang Seok-joon, a Seoul native, rarely watched televised games of the LG Twins or OB Bears, two professional baseball teams based in Seoul. Kang switched on the tube, however, when television aired night games of the SBW Raiders…
Oct 13,2008
Glitter and gold fill the streets of the Jongno district
It would be hard to find any other street in Korea more glittering than the streets of Jongno, in central Seoul, stretching from Tapgol Park to Jongmyo Park. Along that stretch of the bustling main artery downtown that is Jongno, visitors are trea…
Oct 06,2008
Get your spooks on Toy Street
If you are enough of a Halloween maniac to already be preparing for the ghoulish holiday, a visit to a narrow street near the Dongdaemun subway station in central Seoul could be of haunting significance. In four stores specializing in party suppli…
Sept 29,2008
Past textbook haven specializes to survive
Clashing images of Seoul’s past and present couldn’t be any more striking than Cheonggye-6-ga. Tiny stores selling dusty old books crowd the street and the newly renovated Cheonggye Stream runs below, serene and well tended. Cheonggye-6-ga is Se…
Sept 22,2008
1
...
118
119
120
121
122
123
124