daily life

Among the smaller but immediately practical changes taking effect in Seoul this month is an extension of the maximum ride time on the city’s village buses (마을버스) — the short-route …

Incheon, South Korea’s third-largest metropolitan area, has completed an administrative restructuring that changes its official makeup from “2-gun-8-gu” (two counties, eight districts) to “2-gun-9-gu” (two counties, nine districts), effective this …

Seoul’s city government has kicked off July 2026 with a cluster of new public-life policies, the most technically notable being AI-powered CCTV cameras installed along Han River walkway sections, designed …

Korea has launched what officials describe as the country’s first nationwide navigation-integrated alert service for flood-related road closures, notifying drivers in real time through map and navigation apps when underpasses …

A new government savings program aimed at young Koreans, the “Youth Future Savings Account” (청년미래적금), launched in June 2026, offering matching contributions on top of what participants save themselves over …

South Korea’s fertility rate rose to 0.99 in January 2026, nudging up against the symbolic threshold of 1.0 for the first time in years. Statistics Korea recorded 26,916 births that …

A viral YouTube video, a one-star review on a delivery app, and a heated post on a parenting forum are about to fall under the exact same legal standard in …

As of July 1, sending a roughly 0.5-kilogram package — about the weight of a single book — from a Korean post office to the United States costs 39,000 won, …

Walk the back alleys near Hongik University Station in Seoul’s Mapo District this month and the music hits before anything else does — looping jingles spilling out of a row …

South Korea marked the 104th Children’s Day this May 5 — and in an estimated 450-plus cafés and restaurants around the country, a child still wouldn’t have been allowed through …