Korea

Until this past December, standing up a Korean restaurant cost almost nothing under consumer protection rules — a maximum penalty of 10% of the bill, no matter how much food …

Walk into a Kyobo Book Centre in Seoul this month and the crowd looks different from a few years ago: more people in their 20s, fewer of them just browsing …

Paris-based animation house Passion Pictures and European streamer ADN have officially greenlit an animated TV series adaptation of “Hero Killer” — one of Naver Webtoon’s most successful action titles — …

On the morning of June 23, ambassadors from 13 countries filed into a briefing room at Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Seoul, there for an update on a meeting …

In April 2026, South Korea did something no major esports nation had done before: it walked away from a brand-new international tournament with a $45 million operating budget and a …

It’s late evening, and a PR team leader sends a KakaoTalk message to two team members who’ve already left the office: double-check the numbers before tomorrow’s press release goes out. …

“Colony,” Yeon Sang-ho’s zombie-outbreak thriller, held the No. 1 spot at the South Korean box office for roughly a month after its mid-May launch — and it took “Toy Story …

Grove City, Ohio doesn’t look like ground zero for anything. It’s a Columbus suburb of roughly 42,000 people, per U.S. Census Bureau estimates — the kind of place known for …

The railway crossing sits on an ordinary residential street in Kamakura, Japan — barely wide enough for a single car. Lately it’s rarely empty. Tourists from Korea, Indonesia and Myanmar …

South Korea is the only Asian country in Nike’s top-tier World Cup collaboration program for 2026 — and the kit that got it there has G-Dragon’s signature daisy logo stitched …