North Korean Officials Shut Down ‘Cheap Beer’ Brewery

April 12, 2013 // 1:49 pm

We have a lot of faith in beer as a political peacemaker, but North Korea might prove to be the exception. Just ask Harry Kim, a Chinese citizen of Korean descent who invested $32,000 to set up a brewery in North Korea — only to be shut down when…

Move Over Kogi –Taco Bell Now Selling Bulgogi Tacos

January 14, 2013 // 5:23 pm

So the Kogi craze has come and gone, but there’s nothing like a good dose of capitalism to make an old stroke of genius new again, amirite?

Now available from Taco Bell Korea – which opened in South Korea, mind you, over two years ago, the laggers –…

Dunkin’ Donuts Uses ‘Flavor Radio’ to Turn Korean Bus Riders into Pavlovian Pooches

July 27, 2012 // 9:19 am

Hear jingle, smell coffee, buy Dunkin’ Donuts. Repeat ad infinitum.

That’s the basic premise behind an ad campaign tested on public buses in Korea earlier this year. Using sound-sensing scent sprayers, Dunkin’ Donuts’ “Flavor Radio” would unleash the smell of coffee on unsuspecting commuters after hearing the chain’s ad…