Culture & Trends
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Korean think tank urges focus on 'yold' demographic in clothing market
Dec 23, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blackpink named Entertainer of the Year by Time Magazine
Group Blackpink was selected as "2022 Entertainer of the Year" by TIME, a US weekly magazine. The magazine released a list of the most influential pe...
Dec 06, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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VANK launches campaign to promote Korea in Vietnamese
The Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (or VANK), an online public diplomatic mission, said on Saturday that it has opened a Vietnamese language site ...
Dec 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea must embrace diversity to sustain K-culture: Sam Richards
When Penn State University sociology professor Sam Richards introduced Korean pop culture into his lectures three years ago, he compared its power to...
Oct 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Average is over; microsegment consumers, professor says
The phrase “Average is over” topped the list of 10 key phrases suggested by a renowned Korean consumer behavior professor to predict 2023...
Oct 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Gucci to hold Alessandro Michele-directed show at Korean royal palace
Italian luxury fashion house Gucci will hold a fashion show choreographed by its famous creative director Alessandro Michele at a South Korean royal ...
Sep 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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MZers become key consumers of ergonomic office chairs, Sidiz says
Ergonomic office chairs are drawing heightened interest from millennials and Generation Zers in South Korea, according to the country’s leading...
Aug 12, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Golf apparel goes trendy and upmarket in Korea on rise of young golfers
As the popularity of golf grows in South Korea, particularly among young people, golf clothes are becoming increasingly more expensive and fashionabl...
Aug 09, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chinese game Genshin Impact's summer fest draws large crowds in Seoul
Shanghai-based game developer and publisher miHoYo Co. on Wednesday wrapped up its well-attended week-long Genshin 2022 Summer Festival in Seoul. As ...
Aug 03, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Golf simulation centers' revenue soars 48% on-year
Even amid the COVID-19 pandemic, sectors serving golf enthusiasts have thrived in South Korea.Financial services company BC Card analyzed the sales d...
Jun 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Lee Kun-hee’s art collection exhibited from this month in Seoul
The lavish art collection donated by the Samsung Group following the death of group chairman Lee Kun-hee will be shown to the public from July 21. The...
Jul 20, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Perfection and speed
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast” is a famous quote attributed to the late management thinker Peter Drucker. Like most quotes from fam...
Jun 28, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Naver's Line makes remote working the new norm; who will be next?
South Korea-based Line Plus Corp. is set to become the country's first large business group to allow employees to work from home permanently. The mov...
Jun 18, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Reading the air
For the past 18 years I have worked in East Asia, four of them here in Korea and the last ten for the Swiss national trade and investment agency calle...
May 25, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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HiteJinro to export Terra beer to Hong Kong, Singapore, US
South Korea’s record-breaking Terra beer will begin exports to Hong Kong this month, and to Singapore and the United States from the latter hal...
May 12, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Samsung heirs likely to donate over half of Lee's art collection
Samsung Group heirs, including Samsung Electronics Co. Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee, have tentatively agreed to donate more than half of the late Lee Kun...
Apr 16, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carpenters brew tea from 150-year-old Korean pine trees
GANGNEUNG, Gangwon Province -- Gangneung, on the coast east of Seoul, is famously known as a coffee destination — but there's actually another d...
Nov 18, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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