Why it mattersThe Strait of Hormuz is a chokepoint for a huge share of the world's oil shipments, so a 100-day disruption affecting foreign crews is a si…
On day 100 of the Hormuz blockade, another Korean sailor disembarked, leaving 148 still aboard ships in the strait.
Read MoreWhy it mattersThe carbohydrate-versus-fat fuel debate and the '30-minute fat-burning' myth are global fitness misconceptions, so this evidence-based refr…
A Korean fitness columnist says weight loss and diabetes both improve fastest when you alternate hard and easy workouts weekly.
Read MoreWhy it mattersKorea's reading boom shows how fan culture and social-media taste-making — forces the world associates with K-pop and dramas — are now resh…
Novels made up one in 10 books sold in South Korea in early 2026, with 30 titles in the top 100 — a record this century.
Read MoreWhy it mattersIt signals how far South Korea is willing to extend its hard-line anti-drug stance into routine government hiring, a model other countries …
All South Korean civil-service exam passers must now pass a mandatory drug test before being appointed to their posts.
Read MoreWhy it mattersAs extreme summer heat intensifies worldwide, the plight of low-wage support workers in enclosed, poorly cooled workplaces is a growing lab…
A Korean union survey found 87% of school kitchen staff and 66% of cleaners suffer heat illness symptoms at work.
Read MoreWhy it mattersIt's a small but telling example of how South Korean coastal towns are using night markets to extend tourist spending into the evening and …
Donghae City will open a weekend night market July 10–August 29 with 25 food booths and a 20-stall flea market.
Read MoreWhy it mattersPeriod poverty—being unable to afford menstrual products—is a global issue, and South Korea's state-funded pilot offers a concrete policy m…
South Korea will provide free menstrual pads at public facilities in 12 districts nationwide starting in July, the government announced.
Read MoreWhy it mattersIt is one of the world's rare pieces of direct physical evidence that humans hunted whales thousands of years ago, predating the industrial…
A deer-antler harpoon point lodged in a 5,000-year-old whale bone is set to become South Korea's national heritage.
Read MoreWhy it mattersHow Korea fixes its rural and emergency-care shortages is a test case for advanced economies facing similar doctor shortages and aging popu…
South Korea has finalized a 300-member citizen panel to help reshape regional and essential healthcare policy, starting this month.
Read MoreWhy it mattersThe same fight over whether AI companies can train on human-made work without permission is unfolding globally, and Korea's webtoon industr…
A Korea Cartoonists' Association survey found 67.7% of members oppose AI training on their work without consent and compensation.
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