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Korea’s government is funding translation support for roughly 40 domestic web novel publishers and platforms in 2026, offering up to 15 million won in reimbursed costs per company, an initiative …

Innisfree has become one of the beneficiaries of a “functional skinbarrier, tech-minimal” trend reshaping Korean skincare in 2026, with barrier-repair, soothing and hydration-focused products built around simplified, function-first formulas climbing …

Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA) ran a Korea Pavilion at the 2026 Annecy International Animation Film Market, held alongside the Annecy …

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, …

Twelve Korean animation studios walked into Annecy, France this spring hoping to strike deals with the world’s biggest buyers of animated content — and walked out with nearly $84 million …

On Amazon, the single biggest barometer of the US beauty market, Korean brands just posted one of their strongest weeks yet, and one name in particular is leading the charge. …

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 …

Twelve Korean animation companies attending the 2026 Annecy International Animation Film Market in France, held June 23-26, closed roughly $84.09 million in export consultation deals across 209 individual meetings, according …

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 …

With Korea’s domestic fried-chicken market saturated, Korean chicken chains are treating the current wave of global K-content popularity as a “golden window” for overseas expansion, according to a June 12 …