Korea

On May 29, the YouTube channel “전과자” — known for bringing K-pop idols like EXO’s Kai and Chanyeol onto college campuses for content — deleted a video and issued a …

On three nights in late April, forty people at a time sat in a Changdeokgung courtyard after dark and watched court musicians and dancers recreate a banquet that was never …

For years, Korean dating apps have mostly matched Koreans with other Koreans. Weepy, a social discovery app run by Enrise, is betting that a growing appetite for cross-border romance — …

When “눈동자” (Pupil), a modestly budgeted Korean thriller, opened in theaters on June 24, 2026, it shared its release date with one of Hollywood’s bigger summer bets: Warner Bros.’ “Supergirl.” …

When Google’s first smart glasses failed a decade ago, the biggest complaint wasn’t about software — it was that they looked ridiculous. For its second attempt, the company is leaning …

“안녕하세요. 웰컴 투 올리브영.” On June 13, that Korean-English greeting rang out inside Westfield Century City, one of Los Angeles’s busiest shopping malls, every time a customer walked through the …

For most of the last six centuries, Cheongnyeongpo — a river bend in Yeongwol County, Gangwon Province — drew the kind of visitor who already knew Korean history cold: the …

When tvN and TVING’s “Chef in the Army” (취사병 전설이 되다) wrapped on June 16, it left behind more than just ratings numbers. According to TV Report, the source webtoon’s …

Na Young-seok doesn’t make television so much as he makes a guarantee. His newest show, a farm-life unscripted format that drops three A-list stars into days of actual agricultural labor, …

For eight straight years, every annual fertility report out of South Korea told some version of the same story: lower than the year before. That streak broke in 2024, and …