Korea

“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 …

An elderly woman stopped Seoul-based travel writer Ji-Hoon Park outside Apgujeong-Rodeo Station’s Exit 4 with a question that says everything about this street’s history: “Is Rodeo Street still crowded these …

Sometime later in 2026, if you’re walking the western edge of the Las Vegas Strip looking for an iced coffee the size of a flower vase, you may run into …

Netflix’s “Teach You a Lesson” (참교육) has spent three straight weeks at No. 1 on the platform’s Global Top 10 Non-English TV chart, and its 39.3 million cumulative views are …

By one measure, the Korean workplace got a little less stressful last year. By the measure employers tend to care about most, it didn’t get any better — and the …

On June 1, at SBS’s “NEXT EPISODE” drama media day in Seoul, the network confirmed that “The Judge from Hell” — the demon-possessed-judge drama that hit a peak rating of …