JOONGANG ILBO]   Around 7:30 a.m. on a recent Thursday, a sharply dressed man in his 40s strolled into a buffet restaurant of a hotel in Yeouido, western Seoul, with the ease of a regular.

It’s one of the best parts of a holiday – the breakfast buffet. A seemingly endless assortment of morning treats, it’s kind of like having your own personal chef. Eggs your way? No problem.

Forget water parks, temples, shopping, monuments — nothing quite gets my family going like a breakfast buffet. And the more lavish and ostentatiously over the top, the better. Towering displays ...