Seoul’s Hongdae neighborhood is filled with coffee shops dedicated to celebrating the birthdays of K-pop idols. Fans share ...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang met with some of South Korea’s most influential business leaders over Korean barbecue, soju and beer ...

Seoul’s Hongdae district was buzzing from early Friday morning, hours before Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was expected to touch down in Korea for a visit packed with gaming, barbecue and meetings with the ...

It was a lazy Sunday morning, or afternoon, after a punk show the night before at Skunk Hell. I was getting breakfast with a U.S. Air Force friend at a waffle-and-ice cream stand near Hongdae ...

Watching the reactions surrounding the Jamsil voting rights rally, the song “What’s Wrong With My Age?” came to mind. As citizens gathered to protest the shortage of ballots, online comments initially ...

Myeongdong is famous in Seoul as a place where many couples gather on Christmas. In recent years, Shinsegae Department Store installed a large electronic billboard on the exterior wall of its main ...

Perfect World Games' new urban fantasy RPG, 'Neverness to Everness' (NTE), has met its fans in the real world. On April 29, Perfect World Games hosted an offline pop-up event, 'Anomaly Management ...

The area around Hongdae Ipgu Station and Hapjeong Station on Subway Line 2 is set to be reborn as a hub for youth culture and tourism. If foreign lodging facilities, performance venues, and spaces for ...

I still remember my first taste of makgeolli, that white alcoholic drink made of fermented rice, late one night in winter 2004 as I descended the stairs of the punk club Skunk Hell near Hongik ...

Amid a global economic downturn caused by three years of COVID-19 and high interest rates and inflation, the laughter of local merchants in Mapo-gu is drawing public attention. Seoul’s Mapo-gu ...