K-beauty, K-food, K-dramas and K-pop, explained
This Korean food guide starts with the 10 dishes worth knowing first, then shows how Koreans eat them and how to cook them abroad. The short version: a Korean meal is rice, a soup or stew, and a spread of small shared side dishes called banchan (반찬), held together by three fermented pastes and one chili powder.
SK Hynix traded at 1,302,000 won (about $975) on November 12, 2026, up 1.96% on the day. That SK Hynix Korea stock price today is a midday Seoul quote from Yahoo Finance data. It leaves the stock 9.77% lower than a month ago and 13.43% lower than three months ago.
Korean esports teams centre on the 10 clubs in the LCK (League of Legends Champions Korea), and most of them carry the name of a telecom, an insurer, a bank or a food company. T1 grew out of SK Telecom, Gen.G descends from Samsung’s old teams, and Hanwha Life Esports belongs to an insurer inside the Hanwha Group. Learn who owns a team and you can usually guess how it spends, how it behaves, and which rivalry it’s cau…
North Korea daily life for most of its roughly 26 million people is shaped by two systems that pull against each other. On one side is a state that assigns your job, your home and your class rank. On the other are private markets, which have fed families since the famine of the 1990s. Nearly everything outsiders know comes from defectors (people who escaped the country), the 2014 United Nations Commission of Inquiry …
These 18 Korean fashion brands cover cheap basics, designer labels and streetwear, for men and women alike. If you only remember one thing, remember that Seoul splits neatly by budget: SPAO and Musinsa Standard for everyday staples, labels like Andersson Bell and Wooyoungmi for runway-level design, and thisisneverthat or Covernat for logo-driven street style. Below you’ll see what each brand does best, who it suits, …
Here are 50 Korean slang words with meaning, from texting codes like ㅋㅋ to the everyday 대박. Almost all of them are banmal (반말, casual speech), so they work well with friends and can go badly with a boss, a teacher or anyone clearly older. Below you’ll find what each one means, how Koreans type it on KakaoTalk (Korea’s main messaging app) and the few that come across as rude.
Korean drinking etiquette comes down to 7 rules, and the first one surprises most visitors: you pour for other people, never for yourself. The other six are about who pours, how you hold the glass, where you turn your face and how you say no. Learn them before your first soju night or company dinner and you will come across as someone who did the homework.
Learning Korean numbers native and Sino means learning 2 systems. Native 하나, 둘 count things, and Sino 일, 이 read prices. You use native numbers for hours, age and most everyday counting, and Sino-Korean numbers for minutes, money, dates, phone numbers, floors and anything above 99.
What is a chaebol family in Korea: a founding clan, often in its 3rd generation now, that controls a sprawling business group such as Samsung, Hyundai or LG. The word chaebol (재벌) means roughly ‘wealth clan’, and the model explains why one family name can sit behind your phone, your car battery and the hotel you book in Seoul.
The best Korean video games fill 15 slots here, from Lineage (1998) to Stellar Blade (2024). For about two decades Korea built online PC games, mostly MMORPGs (massively multiplayer online role-playing games), and then it started making console action games good enough to sell next to Japanese and American ones. If you want one game to start with tonight, play MapleStory for a free, easy online world, Lost Ark for fa…