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When North Korean leader Kim Jong-un meets with his South Korean counterpart this week to talk peace on the peninsula, he’ll also be getting a history lesson in inter-Korean relations as told through gastronomy. As the leaders prepare to meet on April 27 at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), Seoul’s presidential Blue House today (April 24) released the menu for the post-summit dinner. The ingredients used represent meaning to those attending the summit, and also honor those who have worked to reunify the Koreas in some way, according to the Blue House

via https://qz.com/1260289/all-the-meaningful-things-kim-jong-un-will-eat-when-he-meets-with-south-koreas-president/

In South Korea, 35 miles away from Seoul, Songdo IBD, which is probably the smartest city in the world, has been built ground up near Yellow Sea. 1500 acre, with more than $35 billion investment, it is a utopian pilot land for developers to invest enormously in technologies, so what experience does this ambitious prototype provide us for future smart cities?

via https://medium.com/cusp-civic-analytics-urban-intelligence/what-can-we-learn-from-songdo-ibd-a–35-billion–1500-acre-model-for-future-smart-city–7146af64f3d2