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All posts tagged "LAT"

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  [LAT] Spicy soup and more Korean comfort food at Yook Cal Bop Sang in Koreatown

  Name of restaurant: Yook Cal Bop Sang. “Yook cal” is a mash-up of yookgaejang (a spicy beef soup) and calgooksu (knife-cut noodles). “Bop Sang” literally translates to rice or meal table — because rice is synonymous with meal in...

  • Posted February 17, 2016
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  [LA TIMES] S. Korean single mothers turn to theater to strike back against stereotypes

    — Soft acoustic guitar chords and sniffles from the audience provide the soundtrack as Lee Yeon-ji tells her story of life as a single mother in South Korea. A spotlight settling on her,...

  • Posted December 28, 2015
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  [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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  [LA TIMES] “People don’t even recognize that they’re North Korean” art

  — The exhibition “Hidden Treasures of North Korea Revealed” is a rare showing of the isolated country’s art in South Korea, where possession of most North Korean materials is illegal, considered by the Seoul...

  • Posted February 9, 2015
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  [LAT] Koreatown’s cool old buildings point to LA’s future

  — A 1941 Los Angeles guidebook described architect Myron Hunt’s I. Magnin building on Wilshire Boulevard, finished two years earlier, as an “elaborate new” department store with shop floors “furnished in shades of apricot”...

  • Posted December 1, 2014
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