K-BLOG

Jan 20, 2025
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'Your Utopia' nominated for global top 3 science fiction award

By Lee Kyoung Mi "Your Utopia," a collection of short stories by author Chung Bora (Bora Chung), is the nation's first work to be nominated for the U.S. Philip K. Dick Award, one of the world's top three honors for...

K-POP/DRAMA

Jan 20, 2025
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Rookies, fifth-generation K-pop acts to drop new releases next month

By Lee Gyu-leeThe fifth generation of K-pop is set to conquer the charts this February, with leading groups like IVE and ZEROBASEONE spearheading a wave of highly anticipated comebacks. Girl group IVE is making a comeback with its third EP,...

K-TRAVEL

Jan 13, 2025
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Provincial county offers winter tour via wine therapy, taekwondo

By Margareth Theresisa Nine foreign promoters of Korean culture on Jan. 7 visited Muju-gun County, Jeollabuk-do Province, to get a taste of the country's winter.Korea.net Honorary Reporters and K-influencers shared their experience in a snowy landscape despite the cold...

K-TRAVEL

Jan 13, 2025
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Ministry's 2025 plan to give 'hope to, connect world via culture'

By Lee JihaeThe Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on Jan. 10 announced its major business plan this year saying its policy will "provide hope to the struggling public economy through culture and connect with the world."The plan's five main...

K-POP/DRAMA

Jan 07, 2025
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SEVENTEEN wins 2nd straight Golden Disc Award for top album

By Xu AiyingVideo = Golden Disc Awards' official YouTube channel The K-pop group SEVENTEEN, which marks the 10th anniversary of its debut this year, has received Album of the Year for its EP "Spill the Feels" at the Golden Disc...

K-CULTURE

Jan 07, 2025
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Domestic webtoons in 2023 break record-high KRW 2T in sales

By Yoo Yeon Gyeong Domestic webtoons have broken KRW 2 trillion in annual revenue for the first time, with sales growing for six straight years thanks to stronger demand for the medium both at home and abroad. A...

K-POP/DRAMA

Dec 31, 2024
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'Harbin' director, cast say film encourages 'better tomorrow'

By Xu AiyingPhotos = Xu AiyingVideo = CJ ENM Movie's official YouTube channel"Long live Korea!" (Корея Ура!)This is what pro-independence activist Ahn Jung-geun said on Oct. 26, 1909, at a rail station in Harbin, China, after fatally shooting Hirobumi Ito,...

K-CULTURE

Dec 31, 2024
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No. of visitors to royal palaces, tombs hits record-high 14.89M

By Lee JihaeThe number of visitors to the royal palaces and tombs of the Joseon Dynasty this year has set a record high.The Royal Palaces and Tombs Center of the Korea Heritage Service on Dec. 19 said the figure reached...

K-POP/DRAMA

Dec 26, 2024
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Global Hallyu influencer gala Seoul Con to open on Dec. 28

By Koh Hyunjeong This year's Seoul Con, an expo of global influencers promoting the lifestyle of the capital, will open this weekend. The Seoul Business Agency (SBA) on Dec. 23 said it will host the event from Dec. 28 through...

K-POP/DRAMA

Dec 26, 2024
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Huge six-cess! Stray Kids extend No. 1 streak on Billboard 200

By Lee Dasom The K-pop boy band Stray Kids has made history with six straight entries that debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 main albums chart. Billboard on Dec. 22 said in a chart preview article that the...

K-POP/DRAMA

Dec 17, 2024
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K-drama 'When The Phone Rings' sparks renewed interest in original web novel

The growing popularity of the drama series When The Phone Rings has led to a surge of interest in the original web novel that inspired it and the simultaneously produced webtoon. The eponymous web novel on Kakao Page saw its sales increase...

K-POP/DRAMA

Dec 17, 2024
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Story on deaf boy band leads Korea.net's top 5 articles of 2024

By Margareth Theresia Korea.net throughout this year has spread news on Korea to the world.As of 9 a.m. on Dec. 17, the service posted 12,180 articles in 11 languages including Korean. Among these stories, the following five were the...

K-CULTURE

Dec 17, 2024
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Media facade display lights up Gwanghwamun Gate

Photo = Yonhap NewsSeoul | Dec. 13, 2024A media facade display on Dec. 13 illuminates Gwanghwamun Gate in Seoul's Jongno-gu District the day before the Seoul Light Festival. Source: https://www.korea.net/NewsFocus/Korea_in_photos/view?articleId=263319&pageIndex=1

K-CULTURE

Dec 12, 2024
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Warm spa in early winter

By Lee Kyoung Mi and Kim Seon Ah"What I saw today was a whole new world."This is what the protagonist of a historical K-drama says after seeing a performance of yeoseong gukgeuk, a form of traditional women's theater, for the...

K-CULTURE

Dec 12, 2024
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Hit K-drama helps revive traditional women's theater genre

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