Korea

“Waiting for Kyeong-do,” a 12-episode JTBC and Coupang Play drama that wrapped January 11, opened domestically to a 2.7 percent rating and closed with a self-record 4.7 percent — solid …

When Netflix confirmed in August 2024 that Korean-Australian actress Yerin Ha would play Sophie Beckett, the central love interest opposite Benedict Bridgerton in “Bridgerton” Season 4, it was a casting …

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 …

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 …

Buried inside a July 1 Herald Business report on Olive Young’s near-monopoly of Korean beauty retail is a smaller but striking number: Musinsa Beauty’s transaction value on Musinsa’s Global Store …

CJ Olive Young’s consolidated annual revenue is on track to cross 6 trillion won this year, according to a July 1 report by Herald Business reporter Kim Jin, continuing a …

Kakao Games’ “Odin: Valhalla Rising,” an MMORPG that launched five years ago, climbed back to No. 1 on Korea’s Apple App Store revenue chart and No. 5 on Google Play …

Foreign visitors to N Seoul Tower’s YTN Seoul Tower observatory hit 79,200 in September 2025, up 50.6 percent from 52,600 the same month a year earlier — the highest monthly …

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 …

Musinsa’s “Mujinjang” summer sale — the domestic counterpart to a Black Friday event, run across both its online store and offline locations — generated roughly 265.8 billion won in online …