Joon-ho Baek

Walk into a Kyobo Book Center anywhere in Korea this month and the book stacked highest at the front table is “Project Hail Mary” — a science-fiction novel by an …

Down by Namdaecheon Stream in Gangneung last week, the dress code wasn’t really enforced so much as rewarded: show up in hanbok and you got 10% off at the festival’s …

Somewhere in North Chungcheong Province, there’s a reservoir that horror-content creators have quietly called a “haunted spot” for years — the kind of place that shows up in spooky YouTube …

Get off at Mangwon Station, two stops past Hongik University on Line 6, and nothing about the exit signals you’ve arrived anywhere special. Climb the stairs and the first thing …

For years, the pattern has repeated itself the same way: a drama airs, one scene gets filmed in some quiet provincial town nobody outside Korea had heard of, and within …