Korea Times K-Culture Reporter
Baek Byung-yeul is a journalist at The Korea Times focused on cultural content, including films and cultural events in South Korea. You can contact him at baekby@koreatimes.co.kr to share your insights.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism launched an investigation into the Badminton Korea Association (BKA) on Monday after badminton player An Se-young criticized the BKA's poor management following her winning performance in the women's singles badminton event at the Paris Olympics.
"Heartsping: Teenieping of Love" is emerging as a strong competitor in the summer box office. The Korean animation has secured second place, despite the influx of big-budget films from major studios.
The Incheon Pentaport Music Festival, held over the weekend in the port city's southwestern Songdo, called on fans to cease overnight queuing for better spots to ensure audience safety, the event organizer said Saturday.
It is well known that many Koreans were forcibly conscripted and worked as sex slaves during the 1910-45 Japanese occupation of Korea. However, the story of around 30,000 Korean women who worked at spinning mills over 40 years from 1910 in Osaka is not widely known.
LG Uplus is partnering with SAMG Entertainment, known for the animation "Teenieping," and HighZium Studio, which produced the 2020 hit drama "Itaewon Class," to create a robot-themed drama targeting "kidults," or adults who enjoy fantasy realm characters, they said Tuesday.
As Seoul rapidly globalizes, it's no longer difficult to find restaurants serving Mexican food beyond the streets of Itaewon or Hongdae, areas known for their large foreign populations.
TvN's romance drama "Lovely Runner" continues to captivate global audiences, this time with its script version, swiftly topping bestseller lists in Korea upon release.
Chung Mong-gyu, president of the Korea Football Association (KFA), published a memoir detailing his football career, but the football body chief has been facing a torrent of criticisms from fans criticizing the timing of the publication at a time when the nation has been performing far below expectations in the beautiful game.
Korean animations such as "Heartsping: Teenieping of Love" and "Bread Barbershop: The Birth of Bread Star" are soon to be released in movie theaters here, aiming to join the ranks of the increasingly popular animation genre in the Korean cinema scene.