Hana Suh

Walk the back alleys near Hongik University Station in Seoul’s Mapo District this month and the music hits before anything else does — looping jingles spilling out of a row …

When Google’s first smart glasses failed a decade ago, the biggest complaint wasn’t about software — it was that they looked ridiculous. For its second attempt, the company is leaning …

For eight straight years, every annual fertility report out of South Korea told some version of the same story: lower than the year before. That streak broke in 2024, and …

By one measure, the Korean workplace got a little less stressful last year. By the measure employers tend to care about most, it didn’t get any better — and the …

Ask a room of young Korean men how a dating couple should split the bill, and the answer is close to unanimous. Ask the women dating them, and the answer …

Until this past December, standing up a Korean restaurant cost almost nothing under consumer protection rules — a maximum penalty of 10% of the bill, no matter how much food …

It’s late evening, and a PR team leader sends a KakaoTalk message to two team members who’ve already left the office: double-check the numbers before tomorrow’s press release goes out. …

The video opens on a woman settling into a chair at Kyobo Book Centre on a weekend afternoon, opening a book in the personal-finance section, and waiting. A caption appears …

South Korea marked the 104th Children’s Day this May 5 — and in an estimated 450-plus cafés and restaurants around the country, a child still wouldn’t have been allowed through …

Last week, a post captioned “The average Korean woman” went viral on X: a video of a woman in the stands at a Korea Baseball Organization game between the Hanwha …