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Korea Moves
South Korea is a laboratory for the future, mixing pop culture with business and blurring lines between bands and brands. Thanks to its lightning-fast wireless, is this the media model of tomorrow?
Las Mimosas
Tenerife has a bad rep, but Monocle is a fan of Santa Cruz, its tourist-free capital. Leave the package hordes behind and snap up a Modernist property in the verdant north.
Drugs, guns and nice sofas
In Herat, elaborate palaces are being built by businessmen who have made fortunes from post-war opportunities. A mix of foreign influences, the houses have created a new school of design: Narcotecture.
Cool Operator
A decade ago, Australian Shane Williams invented a cooling vest for football players. Today, his invention helps commandos in Iraq, burn victims, heart patients and even thoroughbred horses.
Abdel Zaher Binding
With over half a century of craftsmanship under his belt, Mohamed Abdel Zaher has transformed his family-run book-binding business into a modern enterprise, retaining all of its character and charm.
What a scoop
In our regular series on the world’s more obscure yet inspirational trade fairs, Monocle despatched a team to Rimini to cover Sigep, one of the biggest ice cream trade conventions in the world.
Race to the Finnish
What do you need to run a great ambulance service? In our series looking at the brands that make our lives work, we visited the City of Helsinki Rescue Department to find out.
Business
Making fast food and even faster bucks in the Middle East, plus Russia's new low-cost carrier.
Letter from Tallinn
In 1991, Estonia broke free from the Soviet Union. Now Europe’s fastest-growing economy, its hi-tech boom continues under a re-elected government. But for how long can this extraordinary growth be sustained?
