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Need a new mystery series? South Korean thriller Mousetrap has landed on Netflix, an unsettling, high-octane careen into the world of “identity laundering.”

Posted in: Conventions, Events, Pop Culture | Tagged: Korean Pop Culture Expo, KPEX, LeftField Media

Exclusive – Get ready to celebrate more Korean culture next year with New York’s own KPEX: Korean Pop Culture Expo, heading to the Javits Center in May.

Disney+ has set a November 4 launch date for its lavish historical K-drama The Remarried Empress, starring Shin Mina and Ju Jihoon, which will receive a world premiere in the On Screen section of the upcoming Busan International Film Festival.

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…