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[HanCinema's Digest] Culture Corner

Time Out breaks navigates Christmas in Seoul for us, big news as Eat Your Kimchi is heading to Japan, brush up on Korean Christmas phrases/words for the festive season, and see what strategies marketers use to push their brands in Korea.

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"The ultimate Christmas guide"

New to Christmas in Seoul? No problem. Hahna Yoon over at Time Out Korea has everything you want to know about spending Christmas in Seoul, including some history on holiday celebrations in Korea, places to video chat to family and friends back home, post office tips, bars to enjoy the festivities at, as well as ways to give back to the community.

…READ ON TIME OUT

"We Are Moving to Japan"

Big news! The massively successful blogging couple form Eat Your Kimchi have decided to move to Japan. The couple have had their eye on Japan for years now, but the couple will finally look to move across the sea: "[W]e've been in Korea for seven years now. It's a part of us. It's changed us in so many ways. Eatyourkimchi, too, is a part of us; we'll always perceive the world through the filter of our life experiences, and to say that we'll experience the world unaffected by our Korean experiences would be a lie. We've been here for many major formative years of our lives; almost our entire married life. And it's not something that we can shake off. We won't try to. And Martina is preparing to pack a suitcase filled with Korean cooking ingredients for the dire hankerings we know we'll have for Korean food".  

…READ ON EYK

"Korean Vocabulary Words For Christmas"

Brush up on your Korean with 90 DAY KOREA's list of Christmas words to use during the festive season: 크리스마스 양말은 왜 거는 걸까요?

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"7 Unique South Korean Marketing Methods"

The Korean Wave could not have happened without the help of some impressive marketing and advertising techniques and strategies. In this post, Bobby McGill takes a look at some of the ways marketers have helped push the country's image-orientated culture forward: "As a special feature we take a look at some unique South Korean marketing methods, and the underlying cultural rationale that makes these campaign strategies effective in Asia's fourth-largest economy".

…READ ON BRANDING IN ASIA

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