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Union Mall, a major shopping center in Bangkok’s Lat Phrao district, is widely considered one of the city’s most popular hangouts for fans of K-pop and Korean culture, with a nonstop stream of fan-organized events and advertisements celebrating Korean stars. But a visit last Sunday offered a glimpse of something else: the growing influence of…

A staff member helps a visitor put on VR glasses in the viewing area of the Immersive section at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival in Italy on Sept 3. WANG KAIYAN/XINHUA

Chinese romantic drama “The Early Spring,” an adaptation of a 2021 web novel, has become the highest-ranked Chinese series on streaming giant Netflix’s weekly non-English TV chart. However, the show has divided domestic viewers over whether it romanticizes an unhealthy power imbalance between its protagonists: a male boss and his female subordinate.

China’s games market surpassed $50 billion for the first time in 2025, growing 5.4% year-on-year to $51.8 billion.

Liu Yifei topped a five-year fan poll of the most beautiful actresses in Chinese historical dramas, ahead of Wang Churan and Song Zuer. (Photo / Weibo)

* As Chinese-developed games gain wider attention from players worldwide, their distinctive Chinese cultural elements and perspectives are becoming key factors that set them apart from other games.

Chinese tech leaders are divesting peripheral holdings—such as Alibaba’s gaming developer Lingxi Games and ByteDance’s Shanghai Moonton—to fund their AI ambitions.

A post in r/nextfuckinglevel shared video of Chinese cosplayer Dalaotian, a Douyin and TikTok creator known for hyper-realistic robot cosplay that has left viewers questioning whether she is human.

Red Velvet tops international iTunes charts with their comeback mini-album “Velvet Summer.” (Photo: Red Velvet, SM Entertainment)

An anime convention in southern China recently evicted several cosplayers after they put their bare feet in water and sold the so-called “feet juice,” which attracted large crowds of onlookers eager to buy.