November 11 in South Korea is three things at once: a government-designated Farmers' Day (๋์ ์ธ์ ๋ ), a rice-promotion campaign called Garaetteok Day (๊ฐ๋๋ก๋ฐ์ด), and Pepero Day (๋นผ๋นผ๋ก๋ฐ์ด), when people give each other chocolate-coated biscuit sticks. All …
On September 12, 2026, Lee Chang-dong (์ด์ฐฝ๋) won the Jury Grand Prize at the Venice International Film Festival for Possible Love (๊ฐ๋ฅํ ์ฌ๋, Ganeunghan Sarang ), the first time a Korean film has taken that prize. The film is also South Korea's ent…
Netflix's Teach You a Lesson (์ฐธ๊ต์ก, Chamgyoyuk ) premiered on June 5, 2026 and went on to become one of the most-watched non-English series on the platform. Viewers abroad saw a high-octane revenge thriller set in schools. Viewers in Korea saw s…
K-pop albums sold about 49.53 million copies in the first half of 2026, the best first half on record, according to Hanteo Global (ํํฐ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ), the company behind the Hanteo Chart. The headline sounds like pure good news. The same Korean data also show t…
On October 9, 2026, South Korea marked the 100th anniversary of Hangul Day (ํ๊ธ๋ ), the holiday celebrating its alphabet. The number is easy to misread: the alphabet itself is about 580 years old, and the "100" counts the holiday, not the sc…
Korea does not publish one autumn foliage forecast. It publishes at least three, built on different definitions of "peak," and they do not always give the same date. In 2026, the Korea Forest Service (์ฐ๋ฆผ์ฒญ), the Korea Meteorological Adminis…
South Korea shipped $11.1 billion worth of cosmetics overseas in the first nine months of 2026, according to preliminary figures released on October 2 by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (์ํ์์ฝํ์์ ์ฒ, MFDS). That is a 31.1% jump from a year earlier…
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