Korea Times K-Culture Reporter
I am covering trend, food and fashion. Previously, I covered diplomacy, city, environment and unification.
Kim So-dam, the older sister of late SHINee member Jonghyun, has launched a mental health counseling program for young artists, an initiative of the nonprofit Shiny Foundation, which Jonghyun's family established following his death in 2018.
Korean national footballer Lee Kang-in, who also plays for the French team Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), is in a relationship with Park Sang-hyo, an heiress of the Korean conglomerate Doosan, according to an online entertainment news outlet.
Royal Asiatic Society Korea (RAS Korea), a 124-year-old organization specializing in Korean studies, is organizing a series of fundraising events this fall in a desperate bid to ensure its survival.
Actor Jo Bo-ah, 33, is set to tie the knot this fall, her agency announced on Wednesday.
A man who dunked a 7-year-old boy's head underwater at a swimming pool is under investigation for alleged child abuse, according to Channel A, a Korean cable news channel, Wednesday.
When Ajit Roy first arrived in Korea in 2011, he was already overqualified with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and aspired to become a medical doctor. But he needed money to support himself and his girlfriend back home in Bangladesh.
A fan of the K-pop boy band Cravity has recently sued the band's bodyguard for assault after being struck on the head at Gimpo International Airport, according to a Korean cable news channel.
An appeals court in Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi Province, last Friday, upheld an 18 month prison sentence, suspended for three years, that was handed down by a lower court to the owner of a pig farm who was convicted of abandoning the corpse of his Thai employee.
Police are continuing their investigation into a taekwondo instructor who abused a five-year-old boy at his martial arts studio in Yangju, Gyeonggi Province, resulting in the child's brain death.