Joon-ho Baek

Seoul has designated five neighborhoods, Jangchungdan-gil, Hapmareu, Seonyurowoon, Oryu Beodeul and Yangjaecheon-gil, as new “local brand” commercial districts under a city program aimed at helping small, independent alleyway shops build …

Stray Kids extended their run atop Billboard’s Billboard 200 albums chart to eight consecutive No. 1 debuts, a streak reports describe as the most consecutive chart-topping album debuts by any …

Gen.G capped an undefeated run through the 2026 League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK) Cup with a commanding 3-0 sweep of FearX in the grand finals, held March 1 at …

Korean education authorities have moved to tighten restrictions on smartphone use inside classrooms, part of what commentators are describing as a broader 2026 social pivot toward “mental health and community …

Korean broadcasters and streamers keep betting on dating reality television, and 2026 has brought fresh confirmation that the genre, once expected to be a passing fad, has become one of …

Every January, Korea’s coffee industry gathers at the Seoul Cafe Show to crown a single word that will define the year’s menus, and for 2026 the organizers landed on “B.E.Y.O.N.D,” …

South Korea’s two major literary institutions are merging their pipelines — one that funds Korean writers at home, the other that gets their books translated abroad — into a single, …

For the third year running, The Korea Times is putting cash, and a shot at a summer internship, behind a simple pitch: get up, speak Korean, and tell us what …

Starting this year, small and midsized companies in South Korea have a new financial incentive to give their employees a half-day off: cash from the government. Since January, the Ministry …

Korea’s webtoon industry, built on a foundation of web novels adapted into serialized visual form, has officially crossed into the 2 trillion won revenue tier, but the growth curve that …