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Pharmacy in Korea: A Traveler's Guide to the Yakguk Counter
A pharmacy in Korea (yakguk, 약국) sells over-the-counter medicine with advice from a licensed pharmacist. Here is how to find one, what to do on Sundays and holidays, how it differs from a convenience...
Songpyeon: Why Korea Shapes Its Chuseok Rice Cake Like a Half Moon
Songpyeon is the half-moon rice cake Koreans shape together for Chuseok, filled with sesame, beans or chestnut and steamed on pine needles....
How Seoul Runs After Dark: A Visitor's Guide to Running Crews and Routes
Seoul's running crews meet on weekday evenings along the Han River, Cheonggyecheon Stream and Namsan. Here is how the crew culture works,...
Hahoe Village and the Andong Mask Dance Festival: A First-Timer's Weekend Plan
Hahoe Village is a living Joseon-era clan village in Andong, wrapped by a bend of the Nakdong River. Here is how to...
What Is Yeot? The Korean Taffy Behind Netflix's Our Sticky Love
Yeot is Korea's traditional grain-and-malt taffy, and the sticky pun behind the Korean title of Netflix's Our Sticky Love. Here is how...
Food Delivery in Korea: How Dinner Finds You, Even on the Riverbank
Food delivery in Korea runs through smartphone apps such as Baemin, Coupang Eats and Yogiyo, and it reaches almost anywhere, from apartment...
Suncheon Bay in Autumn: Where Korea's Reeds Turn Gold
Suncheon Bay's reed fields turn from green to gold through September and October. One ticket covers the wetland and Suncheonman Bay National...
Why You Never Pour Your Own Soju: Korean Drinking Etiquette for Guests
Pour for others, never yourself; two hands with elders; a lower clink and a turned head. A warm guide to Korean drinking...
Noraebang Nights: A First-Timer's Guide to Korean Karaoke
How noraebang works: private karaoke rooms rented by the hour, coin booths for glorious solo singing, machines full of English songs, and...
Nami Island Day Trip: How to Do the Famous Tree Lanes Right
Korea's most famous day trip from Seoul: how to reach Nami Island by ITX and ferry, what entry costs, the tree lanes...
Twenty Years of BIGBANG: Inside the XX : COSMOS World Tour
BIGBANG's 20th-anniversary tour opens with three nights at Goyang Stadium — their first tour since 2017, now as a trio. Why it...
Korean Convenience Store Food: A Late-Night Eater's Guide
Samgak gimbap, dosirak boxes, and the eat-in ramyeon ritual: what to actually order at CU, GS25, 7-Eleven and emart24, plus the small...
Hongdae, Seoul: What to Do in the City's Youth Capital
Hongdae is Seoul's youth capital — shopping streets and cafes by day, buskers and clubs by night, all around one subway station...