FlareUp is not a brand most shoppers outside Korea would recognize. It’s a contemporary womenswear label that, as of last year, barely had a footprint beyond Musinsa’s domestic platform. In …
Fashion
FlareUp is not a brand most shoppers outside Korea would recognize. It’s a contemporary womenswear label that, as of last year, barely had a footprint beyond Musinsa’s domestic platform. In …
Inside Antara Fashion Hall in Mexico City, the booth wasn’t hard to find — it was the one with a line for the skin scanner. Sephora had turned over part …
At a growing number of Whole Foods and specialty grocers in the US, Korean sesame oil no longer sits in the “international” aisle next to the soy sauce. It’s migrated …
Korean animation has spent years building its presence at Annecy, the industry’s biggest international market, mostly through individual studios. This year, that changed: Gwangju’s Information and Content Agency (GICON) brought …
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