Korea

Down by Namdaecheon Stream in Gangneung last week, the dress code wasn’t really enforced so much as rewarded: show up in hanbok and you got 10% off at the festival’s …

In Busan’s Saha District, a couple that meets at a government-organized matchmaking event and eventually marries can collect up to 20 million won (about $14,700) — on top of 500,000 …

Suji Kim made history in 2024 when “Under the Oak Tree” hit #7 on the New York Times Best Seller list for Hardcover Fiction — the first web novel originally …

If “Colony” sounds like familiar territory, that’s because its director built his career on exactly this kind of premise. Yeon Sang-ho — the filmmaker behind “Train to Busan” and its …

Walk through the vintage clusters of Seongsu-dong on a Saturday afternoon and you’ll start noticing the same pieces turning up on people who, by every other signal, look thoroughly current: …

Somewhere in North Chungcheong Province, there’s a reservoir that horror-content creators have quietly called a “haunted spot” for years — the kind of place that shows up in spooky YouTube …

A photo of a kiosk sign went viral in Korea recently. It read: “Using toilet without ordering drinks (1 time per person) 2,000 won.” Reactions split immediately — some defended …

tvN’s newest competition show has a simple, slightly brutal premise: take some of Korea’s most accomplished chefs, strip away their reputations, and let strangers on the street decide who’s actually …

Stand in front of the sunscreen wall at any Olive Young this summer and you’ll see the same bottle in half the baskets around you: a plain, pale-green tube labeled …

A Middle East conflict disrupting oil supplies doesn’t sound like it should have anything to do with whether Korean grandmothers ride the subway for free. But in March, it did. …