Hana Suh

On Amazon, the single biggest barometer of the US beauty market, Korean brands just posted one of their strongest weeks yet, and one name in particular is leading the charge. …

Not long ago, Seongsu-dong was known mainly for its red-brick shoe factories and industrial warehouses. Today it’s arguably the single fastest-growing destination for foreign visitors to Seoul, and the numbers …

A period drama about a 15th-century deposed boy king has become one of the biggest Korean box office stories in years. Distributor Showbox announced that “The Man Who Lives with …

South Korea’s network of government-backed Korean language schools just got noticeably bigger. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced on June 30 that it has designated 29 new Sejong …

With Korea’s domestic fried-chicken market saturated, Korean chicken chains are treating the current wave of global K-content popularity as a “golden window” for overseas expansion, according to a June 12 …

Foreign visitors to N Seoul Tower’s YTN Seoul Tower observatory hit 79,200 in September 2025, up 50.6 percent from 52,600 the same month a year earlier — the highest monthly …

Musinsa’s “Sodam Sanghoe” (“small-talk store”) concept opened its Daegu location on June 12, and drew roughly 2,200 visitors on its opening day alone, according to Musinsa’s newsroom disclosures. The store …

“Kim Bujang” (“Manager Kim”), the SBS Friday-Saturday action-revenge drama marking So Ji-sub’s return to the network after 13 years, posted a 15.7 percent nationwide rating (per Nielsen Korea) for its …

South Korea’s top League of Legends league is entering a new broadcasting era — and its home arena is getting a new name to go with it. Riot Games announced …

A resident in an online community thread put it bluntly in mid-May: “Every time it booms from the ceiling, my heart drops.” Another wrote that after holding it together all …