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Korean Travel Online - Winner Announcement: K-Shuttle Prize Draw

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Failure to send the required information shall mean that the winner forfeits the prize. The announcement of the winning entrant is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

Korean Travel Online - Korea-Themed Iphone 4/4s Wallpapers

There are many beautiful places in Korea and also a lot of photogenic locations in and around the city. In our quest for a new wallpaper for our phone, we just decided to 'wallpaperize' some of the pictures we have.

To download the whole pack, click HERE

The pack contains 21 designs. Each design comes with two versions of the image. Image A is for the Lock Screen while Image B is for the Home Screen. Depending on your preferences, you may also use Image A for both your Lock Screen and Home Screen. I personally don't want the background of my Home Screen to be too distracting so I made a toned-down version of the image for the Home Screen. Scroll down below to see the designs

How to set up your wallpaper:

Here are the designs:

Boseong Green Tea Fields
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Changdeokgung Nightscape
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Daybreak at Cheomseongdae Observatory
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Red leaves blanketing the ground at Deoksugung Palace
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Ferris Wheel at Wolmido, Incheon
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Gangnam
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Outside the National Museum of Contemporary Art
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Gyeongbokgung
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Hangeul typewriter
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Hongdo, Jeollanam-do
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Hwaseong Fortress in Spring
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Hwaseong Fortress in Winter
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Ink
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Jangdokjae Jars
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Looking up at Jogyesa
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Lantern at Seoul Lantern Festival
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Tongdosa
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Windmill at Lotte Hotel, Jeju-do
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Head House of Hoeun, Yeongyang, Gyeongsangbuk-do
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Yeouido Fireworks
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Korean Travel Online - Deoksugung Project Exhibit

From September 19 to December 2, 2012, the Deoksugung Project will be on display at the palace grounds of Deoksugung.

Deoksugung Project has commissioned contemporary Korean artists to create works that are to be installed throughout the Deoksugung palace ground. Among the participants are artists from various fields including visual art, music, dance and design. While being challenged by the historical significance of Deoksugung, participating artists imbue it with their own imaginations and interpretations.

I arrived just in time for the guard changing ceremony at the gate.

Roaming around the palace grounds, I saw a beautiful carpet of fiery red leaves, perfect for a picture.

On the way to the National Museum of Contemporary Art, there is a cluster of trees with bright golden leaves

And I passed by this cute little girl feeding the birds.

First up is the installment titled 'Jari'.
The floor is inundated with floor chairs on whose chrome-coated surfaces are 'mirrored' the adornments of the walls and the ceiling. The combination of the LED lighting of the interior and the natural light coming in from outside intensify and amplify the irregularity of the reflection effect generated on the floor.

Jari

The next one I had a hard time finding as it is not exactly at the place that was shown on the map. Went to the lady by the 'Jari' and asked about it and she pointed me to the red tree.

Crystal vs. Decision

The artists scatter around and pile up crystal blocks. Every 'crystal(結晶)' in the world requires a long period of quiet and careful process to be 'decided(決定)' as a perfect form at a certain moment. Yet when the very instant moment passes, it is subject to destruction and disappearance so as to move towards yet another order. Under the universal condition which does not tell the eventual outcome, things continue to move. A crystal is both eye-blindingly brilliant and lethargically vain.

Audiorama-Novels of Royal Ladies

The artist selected some highlights from the royal classic novels of the Joseon dynasty, which were kept at Nakseonjae in Changdeokgung, and has them delivered through the voice of a professional announcer. Those classical phrases of somewhat, in the artist's words, "hilarious style" are projected through the "non-everyday voice tone" of the announcer. Despite their vulgarity and didactic plots, which can also be found in currant television dramas, the subtle and detailed descriptions and metaphoric expressions are of high literature. As one listens to those paragraphs, he or she can peek into the daily lives of the royal and noble families of the Joseon dynasty.

Tear Drop

The artist places her 'dazzling' sculpture of a tear drop in this simple and unrefined place that seems to have become a symbol of the tragic destiny of Deoksugung. As the sculptural condensation of a single teardrop is refracted by its own thousands of LED light bulbs, one cannot obtain a clear view of it. The paradox inherent in this sculptural piece that it is brilliantly lit but is not easily recognizable represents the fates of countless women including Queen Inmok led their lives as human beings here inside the walls of the palace. Here emerges an intangible world that prevents itself from being easily described or comprehended.

Better Days

The rooms are crowded with the furniture items and craftworks, which were used by women in old time, and selected all from the artist's collection. Those objects and a video work shown here seem to seek to reinstate the short happy days of Princess Deokhye while evoking faded memories and nostalgia.

Inwardly, Determine Yourself/ A Rest without Notice

This space is of multiple layers of memories that traverse different time and origins, and the artist adds another layer of 'contemporaneity' to the space: a polygonal mirror fragment is inserted between the existing items of furniture in the interior of Jeonggwanheon

Daystar

In the middle of this small grove where exuberant trees afford shades, the artists install their Daystar series. Sun beams come through the chink in the window or trees to meet objects while creating shadows. The movements of the things result in the delicate separation between light and shade. A long glance at this trivial event delivers unexpected moments of wonder and beauty.

On my way out, I passed by the pond. I've been here before but I never noticed the pond. It's beautiful with the fallen leaves floating in the water.

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Korean Travel Online - The Hilton Christmas Train

The Annual Millennium Seoul Hilton Christmas Train pulls out of the station for the seventeenth year from November 25th 2012 to January 13th 2013. Throughout the Festive Season, the lower lobby will feature a stunning display of vintage trains and wagons set amidst a “Dickensian” winter landscape of mountains, villages, stations, lakes, harbours and bridges to truly capture a sense of wistful nostalgia and the magic of Christmas for the whole family.

Date: From November 25th, 2012 ~ January 13th, 2013
Time: Daily 10:30am - 10:30pm (10:30am - 12:00am on Dec. 24,25 & 31)
Place: Lower Lobby, 1st floor

To get to the Millennium Seoul Hilton Hotel, go out of Exit No. 8 at Seoul Station on Subway Line 1. Then go straight ahead about 100 meters until you will see the Daewoo Foundation Center and SK Green Bldg. Go up along the street between the buildings to the hotel. And use the elevator in the hotel's parking lot to the P5 floor (Grand Ballroom) or ML floor (Main Lobby).