All posts tagged "restaurants"

  • Kim Bo-hyung, the country manager of Michelin Korea, announnces the plan to publish the Micheline Guide on hotels and restaurants in Seoul during a press conference in Seoul on March 10, 2016. (Yonhap)
    Michelin Guide to publish Seoul edition in late 2016

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — The Michelin Guide, an international benchmark of good food, said Thursday it will publish a guide of restaurants and hotels in Seoul later this year to introduce the dynamic Korean culinary scene and talented...

    • Posted March 10, 2016
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  • Year-end party
    LA K-Town restaurants, hotels see end-of-the-year events boom

    It’s the best time of the year for Korean restaurants and hotels in Los Angeles — reservation time slots across Koreatown are reaching 100 percent as local organizations clamor to book spaces for end-of-the-year events. Joo Woo-in,...

    • Posted November 19, 2015
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  • Korean food
    S. Korean govt to compile 30 Best of Best LA Korean Restaurants

    Thirty Los Angeles Korean restaurants will be chosen by the South Korean government and Taste of Korea for promotional support. Under the name “Best of Best Korean Restaurants,” winning eateries will receive six months of promotion via...

    • Posted November 13, 2015
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  • (LA Times)
    [LA TIMES] For novice restaurateurs, risk of failure is high

    — Ari Taymor’s 3-year-old restaurant Alma basks in the kind of acclaim most young chefs can barely begin to fathom. Within a year of opening, when Taymor and business partner Ashleigh Parsons were just...

    • Posted July 27, 2015
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  • Chef Kim Sung-il of "La Yeon" (center), poses with Chef Ryu Tae-hwan of "Ryunique" (left) and Chef Yim Jung-sik of "Jungsik," at the award ceremony of Asia's 50 Best Restaurants 2015 held in Singapore, Monday. (Courtesy of S. Pellegrino)
    Only three Korean restaurants make Asia’s top 50 list

    By Kim Bo-eun Despite the hype over the globalization of “hansik” or Korean food, only three Korean restaurants made it onto Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2015, an annual listing released in Singapore this week. Chef Yim Jung-sik’s...

    • Posted March 12, 2015
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  • A waiter picks up a tip left at a table in a Koreatown restaurant.
    Attention business owners: It’s illegal to take tips given to employees

    Business owners and managers: You do realize taking tips given to your employees is illegal, right? It’s a violation of California labor laws and can lead to nasty lawsuits. A 45-year-old man identified only as Kim has...

    • Posted July 9, 2014
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