October Events on Visitseoul.net

Compiled by Dan Gray

Halloween Events

Oct. 31: Halloween Party at Kabinett. Live music from Bad Moon Band, dancing, scary games, and the best costume contest with great prizes! Admission includes two free drinks and a light buffet dinner 8:00pm to midnight. 02-790-7034 Nov. 1: Halloween Party at Wolfhound. The Wolfhound will offer over 1,000,000 won in cash prizes for top costumes! Overall 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prize winners will receive prizes. Also there will be prizes for couples. Drink specials including Jello Shots. There will be guest DJs and an upstairs Dance Floor. Thewolfhoundpub@gmail.com, 02-749-7971.

Hotels

To Oct. 5: Grand Hyatt Seoul. The Japanese restaurant Akasaka presents pine mushroom dishes. These seasonal pine mushrooms are 100 percent natural, harvested from the wild. Dishes include sautéed pine mushroom with live abalone, mushroom sukiyaki, mushroom tempura, and mushroom porridge. A seven-course set menu is available for dinner. A la Carte items are around 38,000 won and the dinner set is 220,000 won, exclusive of tax and service charge.

Akasaka: (02) 799-8164
Yongsan District, central Seoul
www.grandhyattseoul.co.kr
Sofitel Ambassador Hotel

Oct. 15: Seoul International Women’s Association Event. Coffee Morning at Sofitel Ambassador Hotel. Guest Speaker Dae Bong Sunim, an American Buddhist. He has been the Abbot of Zen Centers in Paris, France and Berkeley and Cambridge in America. He has practiced and taught in America, Europe and Asia and since 1999 has been the resident Zen Master of Gye Ryong San International Zen Center- MuSang Sa in Korea. He will be talking about “Zen in daily life, Look into myself.” 9.30 ~ 11.30am
http://www.siwapage.com/
Millennium Seoul Hilton

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Daniel Gray is a Korean adoptee that returned to Korean in 2005 because he wanted to try and find his birth mother and to learn about Korean culture. He started a restaurant review blog in 2007, www.seouleats.com, that became a local and international hit. He and his blog has been featured in the New York Times, Monocle Magazine, The Kimchi Chronicles, Bizarre Foods, Rudy Maxa, Olive Magazine, Euronews and much more. He now is a partner at O’ngo Food Communications (www.ongofood.com), which is a culinary tourism and consulting company that offers Korean cooking classes and restaurant tours to travelers. Their food tours and cooking classes are ranked as one of the top attractions in Seoul according to tripadvisor.