Olive Young (올리브영), Korea's largest health-and-beauty retail chain, says foreign customers have spent more than 1 trillion won in its physical stores this year, and the milestone arrived in August. This article answers a specific question: what …
November 11 in South Korea is three things at once: a government-designated Farmers' Day (농업인의 날), a rice-promotion campaign called Garaetteok Day (가래떡데이), and Pepero Day (빼빼로데이), when people give each other chocolate-coated biscuit sticks. All …
On September 12, 2026, Lee Chang-dong (이창동) won the Jury Grand Prize at the Venice International Film Festival for Possible Love (가능한 사랑, 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 (참교육, 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 (한터글로벌), 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 (한글날), 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 (산림청), the Korea Meteorological Adminis…
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