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260,000 Korean Textbooks for Overseas Schools South Korea’s Ministry of Education will distribute roughly 260,000 Korean-language textbooks to regular elementary and secondary schools overseas in 2026, alongside nine newly developed …

The 30 Deaths Emergency Rooms Counted Between May 15 and August 9, 2026, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency’s (KDCA) emergency room surveillance system for heat-related illness recorded an …

A 19-Year-Old Title Reappears on the Chart On August 10, 2026, an unfamiliar title landed at No. 6 on FlixPatrol’s global Netflix movie chart. It was “D-War,” a Korean film …

Same T-Shirt, Five or Six Colors at Once At Space H Seoul, the Hedges flagship store in Seoul’s Myeongdong shopping district, it’s not unusual to see a customer pick up …

Sales Grew by Double Digits. Profit Didn’t Follow. CJ CheilJedang reported second-quarter 2026 revenue of 4.195 trillion won and operating profit of 161.9 billion won on August 11. The figures …

A Meeting Deducted Before It Ever Happened She had only received a profile — no actual meeting ever took place — yet one of her contracted matches had already been …

The First Episode, Where Cast Members Named Their Illness Before Their Name On the debut episode of SBS’s dating reality show “My Remaining Love,” which aired on August 3, the …

A Year After the Account Opened, 15 Million CORTIS’s official Instagram account passed 15 million followers on August 5. Big Hit Music, the group’s agency, announced the milestone on August …

What “Over 10 Million” Actually Counts South Korea’s older workforce has surpassed 10 million for the first time. According to the “2026 Supplementary Survey on the Older Population” released by …

People Are Looking Up at Tiled Roofs Differently Now Stand in a Bukchon alley these days and the first thing you’ll notice is travelers tilting their phones up toward the …