Browsing: Korean

From left, actors Sul Kyung-gu, Ryu Jun-yeol and Lee Kyu-hyung pose during a press conference for the Netflix series “Mousetrap” at Hotel Naru Seoul – MGallery in Mapo District, Seoul, Thursday. Yonhap

In this file photo, visitors to G-Star 2025 look around the outdoor exhibitions at Bexco in Busan in November 2025. (G-Star organizing committee)

Gye So-young, author and operator of the YouTube channel “Biguni Yeonseupsaeng,” films a video inside a studio at Yeonhwasa Temple in Dongdaemun District, Seoul. Courtesy of Bulkwang Publishing

Rare K-pop photocards and collectibles drive overseas demand on South Korean secondhand platforms. (Photo: BUNJANG)

The massive energy of BTS’s sold-out ARIRANG World Tour isn’t just filling stadiums across five continents, it’s bolstering cultural influence as well. Amidst this excitement, educational tools like HYBE Edu’s 2021 Korean language kit are finding a fresh wave of attention.

YouTube Japan announced today that PLAVE (플레이브), the Korean virtual boy band that became the first virtual idol group ever to sell one million copies of an album in its debut week, will headline Day 1 of YouTube Music Weekend 12.0 — making PLAVE the first non-Japanese virtual act to anchor YouTube’s largest platform-native music…

Sanho’s ‘Purgatory Funeral Cakes’ is a fantasy graphic novel set in a bakery that makes cakes for the dead, told through an omnibus of stories about the customers who come to order them. Photo: Dark Horse

In an old Korean folktale, when a rat eats someone’s clipped fingernails, they turn into that person. This jarring premise lies behind Netflix’s new mystery thriller seriesMousetrap, premiering August 28. 

A South Korean graphic novel has won a prestigious US comic industry award for the first time, marking a milestone for the country’s comics.

South Korean cartoonist Sanho has become the first Korean creator to win an Eisner Award, one of the comics industry’s most prestigious honors.