Psy, whose global hit “Gangnam Style” put the Seoul district on the world stage, will return to Gangnam next month. The 2026 Gangnam Festival will transform Dosan-daero, one of the district’s busiest thoroughfares, into a two-day celebration of parades, live music and cultural performances. The festival, hosted by the Gangnam-gu Office in southern Seoul, runs Oct. 3-4 and includes a grand parade, a K-pop concert, a family concert and events centered on fashion, beauty and food. Keep an eye out f

Calls to boycott JM Solution have spread online since Sunday, following renewed attention to its alleged ties to former BigBang member Seungri. An online post pointing out Seungri's alleged ties to the K-beauty brand sparked criticism, with some users questioning the appropriateness of a figure convicted of sexual crimes being associated with a business targeting women. Daiso, South Korea's budget-friendly retail chain, serves as one of JM Solution's major offline retail channels. Its skincare p

Chuseok, one of South Korea's most important national holidays, is right around the corner. Often called Korean Thanksgiving, this four-day celebration is traditionally spent celebrating abundance and honoring ancestors. Yet behind the idyllic images of warm family reunions and delicious shared meals lies a more complex reality often marked by underlying family tensions and heavy domestic burdens placed on women. For those unfamiliar with these cultural layers, here are some K-dramas that captur

Korea Herald correspondent NEW YORK — For Australian director Simon Stone, "The Cherry Orchard" was an odyssey born of a combination of things that might have seemed unlikely: a Korean-film obsessive, an Australian director raised in Europe and a long-held dream of working with Korean actors. At an artist talk at Park Avenue Armory on Thursday, Stone described the journey from his fascination with Korean cinema to the 2024 Seoul premiere of his Korean-language reimagining of Anton Chekhov's clas

Korea Herald correspondent NEW YORK — “I went to New York. It was an amazing city. A perfect place to live as an alcoholic.” A burst of laughter rippled through the Wade Thompson Drill Hall. The line comes from Song Do-young, the heroine of Simon Stone’s Korean-language adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard,” played by Jeon Do-yeon. Do-young is recalling the 10 years she spent in New York after the death of her son — a detail that, in this version, replaces Chekhov’s Paris. It was an

An exhibition featuring works from the late Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee's collection will open at the British Museum in London on Oct. 1, tracing 2,000 years of Korean history to contemporary art. "Korea: 2,000 years of creativity" is jointly organized by the National Museum of Korea and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea. The exhibition features collections Lee's family donated to Korea's national museums after he died in 2020. The exhibition brings together 79 works com

The massively popular British spy dramedy “Killing Eve” is slated to be remade for Korean TV. Korean film and series production company Anthology Studio has secured the remake rights to the hit series. The company previously co-produced the 2023 film “Cobweb,” starring Song Kang-ho and Lim Soo-jung, as well as the recent Korean remake of Hollywood's “The Intern,” co-produced with Warner Bros. Korea and starring Han So-hee and Choi Min-sik. Unlike the European backdrop of the original show, the u

The Korean remake of the Hollywood hit "The Intern" (2015) debuted at No. 1 on the weekend box-office chart in South Korea, snapping a weekslong chart-topping run by Christopher Nolan's epic "The Odyssey," data showed Monday. The Korean film, which opened Wednesday, added 275,186 admissions over the weekend, bringing its total admissions to 403,906 as of Sunday, according to the data released by the Korean Film Council, which compiles admissions from Friday through Sunday for its weekend chart.

Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture and Singapore’s Arts House Group signed a three-year memorandum of understanding in May to facilitate artistic collaborations and exchanges between artists and arts professionals from the two countries. The agreement, which includes institutional partnerships and capability development through residencies and arts venue management exchanges, was the latest in a string of cultural exchanges between Korea and Singapore that have been taking place at different

For architect Yoon Kyeong-sik, religious architecture should not make faith appear grander, more imposing or more authoritative than it is. Instead, it should lower the barriers surrounding organized religion and allow people to encounter its essential teachings. Yoon describes his approach as creating architecture that is “less religious, but more like Buddha” and “less religious, but more like Jesus.” “Religious architecture differs from everyday architecture because it must address not only h

Lee Jeong-woo, an 18-year-old South Korean pianist, won the piano section of the 2026 George Enescu International Competition, the Hyundai Motor Chung Mong-Koo Foundation announced Sunday. The final of the competition took place Saturday. Lee also received five special awards, including for best interpretation of Enescu’s works and the audience award. Cellist Park Sang-hyeok, 22, another foundation scholar, placed third in the cello section on Sept. 7. Established in 1958, the Enescu Competition

Police have booked a woman in her 50s for allegedly eavesdropping on actor Cha Eun-woo’s private conversations. Yongsan Police Station in Seoul is investigating the woman on suspicion of violating the Protection of Communications Secrets Act. The woman is accused of secretly listening to Cha’s conversations on two occasions in August by attaching a listening device under a table at a cafe in Yongsan-gu, Seoul. According to reports, the woman visited the cafe twice, on Aug. 23 and 29, to install

We live in an era when high-quality video no longer surprises anyone. With a single prompt sent to a free AI video generator, almost anyone can become a content creator and churn out content in seconds. In such an age, then, what is left for motion graphic designers to do? According to award-winning motion graphic designer Kim Gryun, today's practitioners have a responsibility to build truly original content — such as a video that audiences can actively influence, almost like living, interactive

What most of us know about Wayne Thiebaud, the American master who died in 2021 at 101, boils down to the handful of pictures you've likely come across in a coffee-table book: This is the man who dedicated his whole career to painting cakes and slices of pie, lined up like goods in a shop window and painted to look good enough to take a bite. Those who have read past the captions might add he is a figure of the early '60s pop art moment, that loose bunch that begins with Andy Warhol and runs thr

For 23-year-old university student Jeon Eun-seul, dressing up as a museum artifact for the National Museum of Korea's annual costume contest was her "last chance" for a memorable final chapter of her senior year. Then, she won. "Let's become a carp," Jeon thought to herself as she put on the blue makeup, she said in an interview with The Korea Herald on Saturday. "I thought, 'I can show everything about myself with courage, in front of anyone.'" After advancing through the preliminary rounds, Je