Pandemic and growing single-person households fuel furniture shopping and interior design services

Over the Christmas holidays, seven Korean YouTubers gathered in a room to draw lots for a Secret Santa gift exchange. In another room, almost a hundred YouTubers posed together for a group picture. No one wore face masks. Or rather, their virtual, Lego-like avatars didn’t. Under South Korea’s strict social distancing guidelines because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the YouTube community took their gatherings online on Minecraft – the most popular video game of all time. Communiti

Fresh-faced ventures pull ahead of tech giants in South Korea in plotting path into uncharted territory

Sell-by date doesn't mean expiry date, but confusion leads to food waste of 1.54 trillion won a year

As pandemic exacerbates disposable waste pile-up, zero waste stores offer alternative

From delivered food, restaurant takeaways to eating out strictly complying with social distancing rules, pandemic-weary diners have many safe options

As pandemic accellerates trend toward spending time alone, businesses adapt

More Korean women fight beauty norms in gyms and on the playing field, pursuing team sports and strength training

As the foliage turns to different shades of color, those visiting the mountains for the first time this year will be surprised to see so many people, especially millennials, on the hiking trails at Seoul’s many mountains. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, hiking was seen as a leisure activity that not many millennials were excited about. Older bosses at work asking their younger colleagues to go hiking together on the weekend was one of the standard nightmares that millennials complained abou

Stay-at-home culture, cheaper choices leading more Koreans to pick wine over soju

An increasing number of South Korean pharmaceutical companies are catching on to Switzerland’s potential as a portal to the wider European market. Most Koreans know Switzerland for its chocolate, cheese, Army knives, watches and the Alps. But it is not these seemingly iconic items that are holding up the Swiss economy, whose gross domestic product per capita in 2019 ranked second only to Luxembourg in International Monetary Fund’s book — a ranking that demands appreciation giv

People all over the world have been stuck at home for several months now due to COVID-19. More and more concerts and performances have moved online, and some movies have been released on Netflix or other online content platforms exclusively or prior to opening in theaters. With myriad offerings available in these quarantine times, some people are looking to enhance the online experience by setting up sound systems for their homes. The visual experience of an online performance can also be enha

Traditional rites for one of Korea’s largest holidays are likely to be scaled down further as social distancing continues

Perceptions and career aspirations are changing

COVID-19 spotlights health hazards of smoking