Seoul is transforming a 40-year-old underground tunnel beneath City Hall Plaza into a K-content cultural hub, while a new economic report argues that K-Beauty and K-Food need to become Korea's next major export engines beyond semiconductors.
BTS is bringing their "Arirang" world tour home to Busan on June 12 and 13, and the city is experiencing a surge in foreign tourism as two of the group's members — Jimin and Jungkook — hail from the southern port city.
Hearts2Hearts' "RUDE!" becomes the first K-pop girl group song of 2025 to hit 100 million Spotify streams, while rookie group XLOV claims their debut award and Japan grapples with a growing AI voice cloning crisis that has implications for Korean creators too.
South Korea's "MIK" football philosophy, launched with great fanfare in 2024, promised to define the nation's tactical identity — but two years on, it has been exposed as an empty slogan that contributed to one of Korean football's most painful World Cup exits.
Lee Hi's 2026 World Tour has been canceled just four days before its opening night in Singapore, with her label 808 HI RECORDINGS blaming tour organizer KINO WHITE TOURING KOREA INC. for failing to fulfill financial and contractual obligations.
Seventeen's Mingyu has been regularly posting daily life updates on Instagram, and fans say the wholesome content streak is the mood boost they didn't know they needed.
South Korea's small business sector is facing its worst conditions in over a decade, with new startup figures hitting an 11-year low and the closure-to-startup ratio reaching a 12-year high — driven by prolonged inflation, weakening consumer spending, and the looming collapse of major retailer Homeplus.
June is shaping up to be one of the busiest months of the year for K-pop's male acts, with a wave of highly anticipated comebacks set to dominate charts and fan feeds worldwide.
Seoul-based AI startup Stillcut has secured seed funding from Mashup Ventures for its deepfake prevention technology, which embeds invisible signals into photos to block synthetic image generation before it happens — a major shift from conventional after-the-fact detection.
Two hundred young people from 34 countries gathered in Seoul on UN World Youth Day to reimagine Korean reunification — not as a political abstraction, but as a future they can build themselves, through climate tech, AI, and cross-border solidarity.
Daiso's tarpaulin mat-bag — a picnic mat that folds into a carry-all tote — is quietly becoming a summer must-have among foreigners living in Korea, thanks to its wipe-clean surface and practical dual-function design.
With Busan hotels charging up to ten times their normal rates ahead of BTS's June concerts, Buddhist temples across the region are opening their doors to fans — and it fits right into Korea's booming "templcation" trend.