We’ve noticed while scouring shops online that there are a number of Lunar New Year themed items out there to mark the annual celebration.

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South Korean protesters are repurposing traditional flower wreaths and K-pop light sticks as political protest tools amid President Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment trial, with both supporters and opponents sending hundreds of wreaths to government buildings since his December martial law declaration.

The South Korean government has announced it will reduce indirect subsidies for biomass energy. The policy reform comes after domestic and international criticism of biomass energy's link to deforestation.

DamSot is the latest arrival in a wave of restaurants and cafes from South Korea opening in Los Angeles. In May 2024, South Korea-based coffee shop Camel opened its first U.S. location in Silver Lake, immediately drawing lines down the block. In June 2024, one of South Korea’s biggest spicy noodle chains, Jjampong Zizon, opened in Koreatown.

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An eventful shareholder meeting provided the latest twist in the dispute between the families whose deceased patriarchs founded the company 50 years ago.

Control of Korea Zinc, the world’s largest producer of zinc, is at stake in a battle challenging the country’s entrenched chaebol system of powerful conglomerates.

South Korea’s authorities investigating last month’s Jeju Air plane crash have submitted a preliminary accident report to the UN aviation agency and to the authorities of the United States ...

Han Youngsoo chronicled the postwar transformation of mid-century Seoul, complicating popular depictions of that era as one solely of deprivation and hardship.

Mochi Gummies just released a limited-edition Lunar New Year gift box that contains a variety pack of the brand’s best-selling gummy flavors: strawberry, mango, tangerine, sour watermelon, yuzu, and peach.

With Korean-born plastic surgeon Dr. Eunice Park at the helm, AIREM combines the latest Korean innovations with Western cultural norms.