Joon-ho Baek

Korea’s beauty industry closed out 2025 with a record most in the sector had been chasing for years: the country’s cosmetics exports hit 11.431 billion dollars for the year, up …

Walk out of Exit 3 of Hangangjin Station in Seoul’s Yongsan District these days, and within three minutes you’ll spot the five-story Comme des Garcons building across the street. Step …

Korean cinema returned to the main stage at Cannes this year after a quiet stretch. On April 9, the Cannes Film Festival’s organizing committee unveiled its official competition lineup in …

Studio Mir, the KOSDAQ-listed Korean animation studio, is producing Netflix’s “Devil May Cry” anime as lead production company — involved from the scripting stage rather than brought on purely for …

Korean instant-noodle (ramyeon) exports hit $180 million in April 2026, an all-time monthly record, up 35 percent year over year and 11 percent from March, according to industry data reported …

Buried inside a July 1 Herald Business report on Olive Young’s near-monopoly of Korean beauty retail is a smaller but striking number: Musinsa Beauty’s transaction value on Musinsa’s Global Store …

Musinsa’s “Mujinjang” summer sale — the domestic counterpart to a Black Friday event, run across both its online store and offline locations — generated roughly 265.8 billion won in online …

Rotation speed-dating and solo-drinking bars already reshaped how young Koreans meet each other. The newest addition doesn’t look like a dating tool at all: Setlog, a habit-tracking app that pings …

Anyone who has ridden the Seoul subway has probably seen it: a pink-tinted “pregnancy consideration seat” (임산부 배려석), clearly designated but often occupied by someone who isn’t pregnant, while an …

“Perfect Crown,” the MBC romantic comedy starring IU and Byeon Woo-seok that became one of the most-watched Korean dramas of the year, spent its final weeks fending off a very …