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Whose day is it anyway? Washington’s Birthday or Presidents’ Day

In the middle of February, the federal government grants us a small reprieve from the doldrums of work with a three-day weekend.
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Ulsan's Grand Park Light Festival until Jan. 27

For 39 days, the festival will offer nine different moonlight themes around the main gate of the park.
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Lunar New Years holiday hours for cultural and tourism facilities in Busan, Korea

Here is the holiday opening/closing schedule for the cultural and tourism facilities in Busan listed below for the Seollal holidays.
The 30-foot memorial of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a social activist, civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner, stands tall in the sunlight, June 6, 2013, at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The sculpture was designed as a lasting tribute to Dr. King Jr.’s legacy and as a monument to freedom, opportunity and justice for which he stood. (U.S. Air Force photo by L. Cunningham)
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“I Have a Dream” still inspiring

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’ … I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
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Celebrate Korean Traditional Seollal Lunar New Year’s Day at Busan Museum Jan. 24-27

In celebration of Korea’s biggest holiday, Seollal Lunar New Year, the Busan Museum will hold family-friendly cultural activities and performances at the museum on January 25, 2020.
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LA Bar & Grill in Gwangalli hosts Christmas and New Year’s Specials through January 4

LA Bar & Grill in Gwangalli is hosting a “Christmas and New Year’s Specials” dinner event through January 4th, 2020.
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Mount Sogeum Suspension bridge lit up for the holiday season

Korea’s longest suspension bridge has been lit up for the holiday season.
U.S. Air Force Technical Sgt. Chelsea Steel, 8th Civil Engineer Squadron Airman dorm leader, places a stocking full of candy and gifts on a dorm resident’s door handle at Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea, Dec. 11, 2019. The ADL’s placed stockings on over 500 doors in the building while many residents were at work.
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Airman Dorm Leaders: Maintaining Morale

When it comes to maintaining infrastructure built between the 1950’s to 2011, the Airman Dorm Leaders at Kunsan Air Base are ensuring dorms are safe, secure and up to Air Force standards while also raising the morale of their residents.
South Vietnam, December, 1967: Pfc. Orville Painter, 22, of Modesto, Calif., leans out of his bunker at Ka Tum, 50 miles northwest of Saigon, to hang his Christmas stocking. He jokingly pointed to the sky and said, "Santa Claus will assault from there." Painter is with C Company, 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division. JOHN OLSON/STARS AND STRIPES
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Cheer through the decades: Stars and Stripes holiday photos show the military celebrating the season

Stars and Stripes has been all over the world covering the U.S. military community continuously since World War II.
Photo courtesy of USO Osan
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Kunsan AB & Gwangju AB Outreach Christmas Luncheon

During this holiday season, staff and volunteers from USO Osan Air Base (Korea) tried hard to bring a little bit of home to those who could not be there.
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10 Korean spring greens you should know

For those of us who’ve grown up abroad, shopping at Korean grocery stores can be both a beautiful and bewildering experience. What is this root? This tangle of leaves? How can I make it delicious?
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Busan's 'Best Local Restaurants' guidebook now available in 4 languages

The city of Busan has published its “Best Local Restaurants” restaurant guidebook, available in four languages: Korean, English, Chinese and Japanese.
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Most of Hotel Nongshim’s restaurants to be closed until April 10

All of Hotel Nongshim’s in Dongnae restaurants, except for Ristorante, are temporarily closed until April 10th.
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Fresh Gomchwi for spring dining in Korea

At the foot of Hwangmaesan Mountain, fresh gomchwi is beginning to be harvested for spring.
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Partition dining is the newest trend in Korea

With the coronavirus all but changing the daily life of people in Korea, dining at work has also spawned a new trend — partition dining.
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BLT in South Korea

For reasons that I’ve never understood, a BLT sandwich in Korea is almost never, a BLT sandwich.