Korea

Rotation speed-dating and solo-drinking bars already reshaped how young Koreans meet each other. The newest addition doesn’t look like a dating tool at all: Setlog, a habit-tracking app that pings …

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 …

“Kim Bujang” (“Manager Kim”), the SBS Friday-Saturday action-revenge drama marking So Ji-sub’s return to the network after 13 years, posted a 15.7 percent nationwide rating (per Nielsen Korea) for its …

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 …

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 …

South Korea’s top League of Legends league is entering a new broadcasting era — and its home arena is getting a new name to go with it. Riot Games announced …

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, …

Anyone who has ridden the Seoul subway has probably seen it: a pink-tinted “pregnancy consideration seat” (임산부 배려석), clearly designated but often occupied by someone who isn’t pregnant, while an …

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 …

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 …