Mina Cho

Korea has two new candidates in its ongoing campaign to get its traditions formally recognized by UNESCO. The Korea Heritage Service submitted nomination files on April 1 for two separate …

For a country that has spent years as the global poster child for demographic decline, the numbers coming out of Korea this spring are turning heads. According to “March Population …

If you needed one number to capture just how far the Korean-learning boom has come, this is it: applications for the Test of Proficiency in Korean, better known as TOPIK, …

BTS’s fifth studio album, “ARIRANG,” held the top spot on Billboard’s main albums chart, the Billboard 200, for a second consecutive week — the first time any K-pop act has …

Gyeongsangbuk-do (Gyeongbuk) province has hosted roughly 300 film and drama productions over the past three years by running what amounts to a one-stop location-scouting service for producers — handling site …

SOOP, Korea’s dominant livestreaming platform, announced on June 22 that it will build a two-day “homestand” for League of Legends team Gen.G at KINTEX Exhibition Hall 5 in Goyang on …

“Chamgyoyuk” (“True Education”), a 10-episode Netflix Korean original that premiered June 5, has climbed to No. 6 on Netflix’s all-time chart for Korean originals by cumulative views, trailing 5th-place “The …

Less than a year ago, signs went up at some Starbucks Korea branches reading: no personal desktop computers, no printers, no power strips, no partitions. It was a direct response …

Walk through almost any Korean neighborhood these days and you’re likely to pass at least one cafe with nobody behind the counter — just a self-service machine, a QR code, …

Starbucks Korea now runs 14 “special stores” nationwide, and each one is pulling roughly 1,200 visitors a day — a number a mid-size regional attraction would be happy with on …