EXO returned in January 2026 with its eighth studio album REVERXE, its first release in two and a half years and its first since every remaining active member finished mandatory military service — but the comeback rolled out as a six-member activity…
Jennie's "Dracula," a remix collaboration with Australian psychedelic rock act Tame Impala, has spent months camped inside the Billboard Hot 100's top 10 — an unusually long run that's made it the highest-charting song of her s…
NewJeans spent nearly two years locked in a very public contract dispute with their agency ADOR before signaling a comeback in July 2026, when four of the group's five original members appeared together for the first time in over a year in a sur…
BTS returned as a full seven-member group on March 20, 2026, with their fifth studio album ARIRANG — their first group release in three years and nine months since 2022's Proof — kicking off what's being called the largest K-pop world tour i…
Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint is a Korean web novel turned webtoon phenomenon about an office worker who becomes the only person alive who knows how a series of apocalyptic events will unfold — because he read the entire story as a serialized no…
The gat is Korea's traditional black horsehair hat, historically worn by Joseon-era noblemen as a marker of adult status and social rank — and it's become an unlikely global fascination in recent years, largely thanks to a Netflix zombie dra…
The Seoul World Fireworks Festival, officially "Fireworks Festival with Hanwha," is Korea's largest fireworks event, drawing roughly a million spectators to Yeouido Hangang Park each year for a multimedia fireworks show combining pyrot…
Yeondeunghoe, Seoul's Lotus Lantern Festival, fills the streets of downtown Seoul with a river of hand-carried lanterns every spring, when tens of thousands of participants walk roughly 2.9 kilometers from Heunginjimun (Dongdaemun) through Jongn…
The Jinju Namgang Lantern Festival lights up the Nam River in Jinju every October with tens of thousands of floating lanterns, a tradition that traces back to a 16th-century military tactic rather than a purely decorative custom — making it one of K…
The Andong International Mask Dance Festival is one of Korea's three major global festivals, held every autumn in Andong, a city in North Gyeongsang Province long considered the country's spiritual capital of traditional culture, built aroun…
The Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) is Asia's largest film festival, held every October in Busan's Haeundae district, drawing filmmakers, actors, and cinephiles from across the world to the Busan Cinema Center for ten days of screen…
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