The DMZ, or Demilitarized Zone, is the roughly 4-kilometer-wide buffer strip running along the 1953 Korean Armistice line that divides North and South Korea, and its southern edge near Paju and Imjingak has become one of Korea's most distinctive…
Jeonju Hanok Village, set in the Pungnam-dong district of Jeonju, is Korea's largest cluster of traditional hanok houses and the only concentrated hanok neighborhood sitting inside a modern city center. Combining multiple Korean and internation…
Seoraksan National Park, straddling Gangwon Province on Korea's east coast near Sokcho, is widely considered the country's premier autumn foliage destination, with its granite peaks and maple-covered valleys typically turning color first eac…
The Olive Young K-Beauty Edit is a curated selection of Korean skincare brands that Sephora began rolling out across roughly 580 U.S. stores and online on August 20, 2026, marking the first market launch of a global partnership between Sephora and C…
Winter of aespa has built a beauty identity around cool, controlled tones and a face that looks lit from within rather than powdered — a style that carries through her viral "pale fig" freckle look, her glow-driven work with cosmetics bran…
Moono is chef Hoyoung Kim's follow-up to his Michelin-starred restaurant Jua, a more approachable à la carte Korean restaurant on the edge of Manhattan's Koreatown that trades a fixed tasting menu for a tightly curated selection of dishes — …
Joo Ok is the rare restaurant that moved its entire Michelin-starred operation from Seoul to New York rather than simply opening a new branch — chef Shin Chang-ho closed the original Seoul location in December 2023, relocated roughly half his staff …
Atomix, the two-Michelin-star restaurant chef Junghyun "JP" Park opened with his wife Ellia in 2018, has become one of New York's most consistently coveted reservations, ranking as high as No. 6 on the World's 50 Best Restaurants l…
Jungsik became the first Korean restaurant in the United States to earn three Michelin stars, a milestone reached in December 2024 that broke a 12-year drought in which no new restaurant had entered New York's three-star ranks since Eleven Madis…
Cote is the Korean steakhouse in New York's Flatiron District that became the world's first Korean barbecue restaurant to earn a Michelin star — a title it's held every single year since opening in 2017, making it arguably the most influ…
Hanjeongsik, Korea's full-course traditional meal format built around a table crowded with dozens of small side dishes alongside a central protein and rice, takes on a genuinely different character depending on which city serves it — Jeonju'…
While Incheon's Chinatown gets most of the credit as jjajangmyeon's birthplace, Korea's other major cluster of century-old Chinese restaurants sits in central Seoul, in the neighborhood around the former Chinese legation near Myeongdong …
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