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Stay sane while social distancing: The antidote to coronavirus anxiety
With the widespread coronavirus outbreak, mass anxiety and panicky behaviour are spreading. Governments around the world are advising people to socially distance themselves in times like this, but social distancing doesn’t have to doom your weekends. The top-ranked productivity app – Forest, has just released a personality quiz that will melt your heart with its delightful animation.
Rooted in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the Forest Personality Quiz assesses your pathway and finds the flower that best matches your personality. Starting from early March, the quiz created a continent-wide sensation, with over 3 million testers a day. Kpop idols such as Hani from EXID, Jae from Day6, Seolhyun from AOA and Jo Kwon from 2AM have all tried the quiz, making it one of the top searched keywords on Google in 2020, surpassing coronavirus.
To safeguard your mental health during quarantine, a soul-soothing tonic like this is much needed. With its delicate design and calming background music, the quiz caught wide attention starting from Asia, and quickly became an Instagram sensation. The Forest Personality Quiz is created by Forest App, the popular productivity app that helps users stay focused and cure phone addiction by holding a virtual tree hostage. You start by setting a timer whenever you need to stay focused, if you leave the app, your tree dies.
The quiz was created to help people assess their personality and study type by categorising them into different types of flowers. “In stressful times like this, it’s easy to succumb to fear” says Shaokan Pi, co-founder of Forest. “We hope this quiz can help ease anxiety and take people’s mind off the pandemic.”
Forest personality quiz consists of 8 elaborately-designed questions, and 17 different outcomes including rose, sun flower, bear’s paw, coconut, as well as a hidden Easter egg. Each flower, special in its own way, represents a personality. The peaceful effects of the quiz will help you escape the onslaught of bad news. Take the quiz to find your significant flower and stay sane during lockdown.
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CROWN GOOSE LAUNCHES A 6 STAR HOTEL GRAND MERCURE ROOM PACKAGE
Asia’s one of most prominent Hotelplexes, Yongsan Dragon City Hotel Grand Mercure and global luxury goose down bedding brand Crown Goose collaborate to showcase Grand Mercure Crown Goose Suite Room Package from July 20th to August 31st.
Asia’s one of most prominent Hotelplexes, Yongsan Dragon City Hotel Grand Mercure and global luxury goose down bedding brand Crown Goose collaborate to showcase Grand Mercure Crown Goose Suite Room Package from July 20th to August 31st.
Yongsan Dragon City Hotel is a part of Accor Hotel Group from France, and is the largest hotel in Korea with 1,700 rooms, 11 restaurants and bars. The hotel can accommodate up to 4,900 people. Yongsan Dragon City includes four brands: Grand Mercure, Novotel Suites, Novotel Ambassador, and ibis Styles Ambassador.
Crown Goose Suite Room Package is located in Grand Mercure, known as a 6-star hotel from the Accor Hotel Group. Grand Mercure has upto 3 bedrooms, full kitchen facility, and indoor golf course and an access to executive floor lounge.
Grand Mercure’s Crown Goose package room is decorated with royal gold color, which symbolizes success, elegance, and royal authority. This Grand Mercure Suite room displays the top 0.05% of Crown Goose clients’ favorite bedding items. The room package also includes gift box of towel sets.
Crown Goose, a global eiderdown brand has showcased “Crown Goose Room Package” in Hilton hotels before. Hilton’s ocean suite room, the highest room in Hilton accommodated a number of celebrities.
Located in the heart of Beverly Hills, Crown Goose is a goose down brand loved by the world’s top clients and super riches. Crown Goose’s recent clients included New York Manhattan Super Rich’s Residence, 15 Hudson Yards and many Beverly Hills mansions. Thanks to these facts, Crown Goose has established itself as a high-end luxury goose down comforter among the wealthy.
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PENINSULA Unveils World’s First Official 8K Main Trailer!
(PRESSREELS) CONTENTS PANDA(Next Entertainment World), which presents PENINSULA released the world’s first official main trailer of 8K image quality at noon (Korean time) on June 16, 2020.
Four years after ‘TRAIN TO BUSAN’, Connect with the survivors of the ‘PENINSULA’!
(PRESSREELS) CONTENTS PANDA(Next Entertainment World), which presents PENINSULA released the world’s first official main trailer of 8K image quality at noon (Korean time) on June 16, 2020. The trailer of PENINSULA, a 2020 Cannes Film Festival’s official invitation film, depicts the struggles of those who have survived in different ways for four years after TRAIN TO BUSAN.
PENINSULA is an action blockbuster depicting the last battle for survival between the people left behind in the ruins of the Korean peninsula four years after Train to Busan. The upcoming PENINSULA trailer ahead of its worldwide premiere release in the summer of 2020 is full of such big scale action sequences and explosive thrills together with fast-sounding gunfights and car-chasing scenes.
In particular, the official trailer of PENINSULA, which has 8K image quality for the first time in the world, meets the technical specifications of all digital devices and delivers a high level of visual completeness to moviegoers around the world. The 8K trailer, which is 16 times clearer than the FULL HD image quality and 4 times clearer than the 4K image quality, can be enjoyed in 8K, 4K and HD according to the device’s specifications if the 8K main trailer via the NEW’s official channel on YouTube is selected as the highest specification (4320p 8K). Especially, viewers can watch them with a perfect picture quality without an extra setup from the YouTube app on Smart TVs that support either 4K or 8K.
This super high-definition trailer was created through the collaboration of NEW’s digital business corporation NEW ID and SK TELECOM. Among the media-focused core technologies of AI-based Post Production, a joint enterprise between the two companies, the technology called Supernova is a media upscaling solution (up to 8K) to improved quality of image and sound source based on the AI’s deep learning algorithms while maintaining the quality level of the original.
Movie Information
– Title: PENINSULA
– Director: YEON Sangho (Psychokinesis | Seoul Station | Train to Busan)
– Genre: Disaster, Zombie
– Cast: GANG Dongwon (Illang: The Wolf Brigade | A Violent Prosecutor)
LEE Junghyun (Love, Again | The Battleship Island)
– World Sales: CONTENTS PANDA (NEW)
– Production: REDPETER FILMS (Birthday | Psychokinesis | Train to Busan)
– Expected Release Date: Summer 2020
– Logline: 4 years after the inexplicable disaster, they’re returning to the godforsaken land!
– Synopsis
: Jung-seok barely managed to escape from the unprecedented disaster in Korea 4 years ago and lives in exile in Hong Kong by himself. He is given a lucrative chance to return to Korea to retrieve large bags of cash left abandoned in the streets of Seoul. His mission is infiltrated ruined city of Seoul and secure the target truck before the sunrise, then return to Hong Kong unscathed. But he and his team are ambushed by a militia known as Unit 631 and vicious zombie hordes. During his desperate struggle to survive, Jung-seok experiences a moment of deus ex machina as survivor Min-jung and her family save him from brink of death. Together, they formulate one last plan to escape the peninsula for good. The prodigal son, the survivor and the deranged, their bloody battle begins!