Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang returned to Seoul for a packed multi-day visit that mixed Korean barbecue, pork belly dinners, and PC bang stops with high-stakes meetings across the country's AI, semiconductor, and tech ecosystem.
Park Hae-jin, the owner of Myeongtae Myeonnga — a pollock specialty restaurant in Cheonan, South Korea — has spent eleven years building community trust through consistent food and dedicated volunteer work.
Korea's Tourism Organization has partnered with restaurant reservation app Catch Table to help foreign visitors discover and book regional restaurants across the country, with the goal of spreading K-food tourism well beyond Seoul.
The Suwon International Exchange Center hosted nearly 100 foreign university students for a day of K-food cooking, heritage site tours, and community connection — using the global K-food wave as a cultural bridge.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's 2026 visit to South Korea has turned into a full-scale K-food adventure, with stops at pork belly restaurants, fried chicken chains, traditional noodle spots, and samgyetang joints — and the brands he visited are already seeing massive sales spikes.
Korean food has earned a dedicated supermarket category and a "functional superfood" reputation in Sweden, with kimchi, ramen, and gochujang-based sauces leading the charge in mainstream retail chains like ICA, Coop, and Axfood.
Korean food is breaking out of ethnic grocery aisles and into mainstream supermarket shelves in New Zealand, with export data showing double-digit growth and rising consumer demand for Korean sauces and noodles driven by the home cooking trend.
Korean fashion brand Acubi has become a favorite among K-pop idols and global style enthusiasts, signaling the rise of a distinctly Korean aesthetic philosophy that's being called "quiet cool" — and it's reshaping how the world sees Korean fashion.
Behind the glittering world of K-pop stardom lies a trainee system that former hopefuls describe as exploitative and emotionally damaging — a BBC report gives voice to those who felt deceived by the dream.
K-pop has grown from a niche Korean export into a global cultural phenomenon — and for fans who love diving deep, the genre offers an endlessly rewarding world of music, lore, and community to explore.
BTS continues to dominate Japan's music market even during their military service hiatus, while rookie girl group ILLIT emerges as one of K-pop's most exciting new forces in the region during the first half of 2025.
K-pop group LE SSERAFIM's second full-length album "PUREFLOW pt.1" digs into real member conflicts, public backlash, and emotional vulnerability — and turns all of it into some of the most compelling music of their career.