South Korea ups monkeypox alert level, confirms first patient
Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency commissioner Peck Kyong-ran said vaccinations against monkeypox will be offered to people who have been exposed or are at a high risk…
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Music, beauty, fashion: Video maestros say videos offer the full K-pop package
After working with stars from Seo Tai-ji to BTS, producer duo Zanybros are now looking beyond music videos.
Could South Korea’s gun control offer any lessons?
Most South Korean men are trained shooters, having gone through mandatory military duty. But due to a strict gun control policy, there have been no deadly shooting rampages here,…
South Korea joins elite space club as 7th member
Since initiating its first space rocket development mission in the early 1990s, it took nearly 30 years for the nation to prove its capability to develop and a launch space…
‘Top Gun’ Tom Cruise tells long-waiting Korean fans ‘it is OK to cry’
The famed actor also said about his 10th visit to Korea that it was “special, especially after going through the difficult time of the pandemic”.
South Korean rocket Nuri opens new space era
The government-led project took 12 years, with a total budget of 1.9 trillion won injected into the project. More than 300 South Korean companies had participated in the supply of…
From workplace to partisan politics, clash of MZ vs. kkondae in South Korea
The group known locally as MZ, combining millennials and Generation Z, are often pitted against a ‘kkondae’, a self-involved individual who only say what they want to say.
How K-pop idols have come to stand the test of time
Underneath the system, K-pop idols continue to strive to find their own voice.
South Korea’s misery index reaches highest in 21 years
The misery index, which measures how people actually feel about economic distress, was originally developed by Arthur Okun, an economist from the Brookings Institute, in the 1960s.
‘My Perfect Roommate’ director inspired by cohousing experiment, homeless grandma
In the upcoming movie, grandma Geum-boon (Na Moon-hee) finds a new roommate Ji-woong (Choi Woo-sung), a university student, through a room-sharing program that connects young…