Daniel Yoon

Korea’s tourism sector crossed a milestone this June that took a little less time to reach than even last year’s record pace. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced …

Netflix and the Korea Tourism Organization are betting on a formula that’s already worked twice before: turn a hit Korean show into a tourism ad. Their latest collaboration, unveiled June …

Korea’s web novel industry is getting a financial boost aimed squarely at export. The Korea Publication Culture Industry Promotion Agency, known as KPIPA, opened its 2026 web novel translation subsidy …

MAMAMOO returned as a complete four-member group in June 2026 with a special single, “4WARD,” marking the act’s first full-group comeback in four years after a stretch dominated by solo …

“Waiting for Kyeong-do,” a 12-episode JTBC and Coupang Play drama that wrapped January 11, opened domestically to a 2.7 percent rating and closed with a self-record 4.7 percent — solid …

Kakao Games’ “Odin: Valhalla Rising,” an MMORPG that launched five years ago, climbed back to No. 1 on Korea’s Apple App Store revenue chart and No. 5 on Google Play …

A video posted June 20 to the YouTube channel “Kingbatjyu” showed a man who had taken off his shoes and stretched his bare feet across a Seoul subway pregnancy-consideration seat, …

South Korea’s fertility rate rose to 0.99 in January 2026, nudging up against the symbolic threshold of 1.0 for the first time in years. Statistics Korea recorded 26,916 births that …

A viral YouTube video, a one-star review on a delivery app, and a heated post on a parenting forum are about to fall under the exact same legal standard in …

As of July 1, sending a roughly 0.5-kilogram package — about the weight of a single book — from a Korean post office to the United States costs 39,000 won, …