Travel and Culture
Korean lantern festivals light up Seoul (Deutsche Welle) 📸
“More than 2 million people from around the world have visited Korea’s largest lantern festival. The 17-day event, which also celebrates the coming of winter, concluded on November 18. Shay Meinecke reports from Seoul.”
Craft Beer in the Canary Islands: Discovering Tenerife’s Secret Ingredient (Prostly)
“Interview: Teresa Queipo and Joachim Zeisel plan a path through the…Las Cañadas caldera, a volcanic crater, where the two hope to harvest a flowering plant into a special Tenerife craft beer.”
A Foodie’s Paradise in Brussels (Yonderbound)
“Even if you don’t consider yourself a foodie, you’ll love traveling to what I consider to be the European capital of deliciousness.”
Craft Beer in Gwangju: Korea’s Evolving Taste for Mekju (Prostly)
“Interview: Trends change really fast in Korea — everything turns over really quickly, buildings turn over really quickly, and taste turns over really quickly. As soon as [craft beer] hit, everyone was really excited.”
Lifestyle
Korean writer Han Kang’s success represents change (Deutsche Welle)
“In an interview with DW, literary agent Barbara Zitwer discusses Korean literature and its global appeal after the success of Han Kang’s “The Vegetarian,” which recently won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize.”
Shay Michael 