Korea

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 …

A resident in an online community thread put it bluntly in mid-May: “Every time it booms from the ceiling, my heart drops.” Another wrote that after holding it together all …

Starbucks Korea now runs 14 “special stores” nationwide, and each one is pulling roughly 1,200 visitors a day — a number a mid-size regional attraction would be happy with on …

“Perfect Crown,” the MBC romantic comedy starring IU and Byeon Woo-seok that became one of the most-watched Korean dramas of the year, spent its final weeks fending off a very …

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 …