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Culture & Lifestyle Team

Culture & Lifestyle Team

Covering global art, fashion, food, and wellness trends, we explore how cultural movements shape cities, with an emphasis on the intersection of tradition and modernity.

What Is Still Worth Going to See?

What Is Still Worth Going to See?

Busan’s biennale faces questions of artistic judgment and institutional care. A BIFF project-market selection returns as a finished film, while the city’s new concert hall draws crowds. What endures beyond the event itself?

Busan Biennale 2026: What ‘Dissident Chorus’ Reveals After 45 Years

Busan Biennale 2026: What ‘Dissident Chorus’ Reveals After 45 Years

Busan Biennale 2026 opens with ‘Dissident Chorus,’ 46 artists and teams from 22 countries, and a deeper question shaped by 45 years of tension between local agency and international circulation.

Busan Is Building Policy Around a Running Boom

Busan Is Building Policy Around a Running Boom

Busan is expanding runner facilities, public crews and major events around an already popular sport. The deeper policy issue is how those investments serve a rapidly aging city and residents who face greater barriers to regular exercise.

Why Americans Are Paying Cash for Medical Care in South Korea

Why Americans Are Paying Cash for Medical Care in South Korea

South Korea treated more than 173,000 American patients in 2025. Their numbers are rising faster than the data can explain, as private facilitators sell cash-pay screenings outside U.S. insurance networks and Seoul consolidates its lead over cities such as Busan.

Netflix’s Teach You a Lesson Reopens Korea’s Teacher-Protection Debate

Netflix’s Teach You a Lesson Reopens Korea’s Teacher-Protection Debate

Overseas, Netflix’s Teach You a Lesson looks like an anti-bullying revenge drama. In South Korea, it has become a sharper policy question: how to protect teachers without reviving the old machinery of corporal punishment.

Who Makes a BTS Site in Busan?

Who Makes a BTS Site in Busan?

As BTS’ return drives global attention back to Busan, some fan landmarks were built by ARMY, while others are now being packaged by institutions trying to turn attention into tourism.

The Philosophy and Architecture of Korea’s Borrowed Scenery

The Philosophy and Architecture of Korea’s Borrowed Scenery

Korean chagyeong, the art of borrowing scenery, weaves distant mountains, rivers, and seasonal light into the living fabric of everyday space.