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January 2026
“Korea’s Curation Economy”
Depop's 2026 "Edited Self" report confirms what Seoul's claw machine arcades and café culture have demonstrated for years: Gen Z is rejecting algorithmic fashion for intentional curation.
January 2026
Korea's Curation Economy
Depop's 2026 "Edited Self" report confirms what Seoul's claw machine arcades and café culture have demonstrated for years: Gen Z is rejecting algorithmic fashion for intentional curation. With 78% of young consumers repeating outfits and calling it "freeing," the global shift from trend-chasing to deliberate choosing plays to Korea's core strength—not producing fashion content, but curating it.
The K-Fashion Paradox: How Korea Conquered Global Style While Its Factories Died
While Olive Young rings up 1 trillion won from foreign tourists and AI algorithms drive record e-commerce sales, Korea's textile manufacturing base is collapsing. The industry trade press has been documenting this split for years—here's what they're actually seeing.
"The Hungry Profession": Inside Korea's Senior Modeling Money Machine
Korea's senior modeling industry generates 60-70% of revenue from training fees while models earn almost nothing. Even celebrity model Kim Chil-doo admits he needs taxi work to survive. Investigation reveals the economics behind the "open wallets" phenomenon exploiting wealthy retirees.
The fashion magazine died just as it learned to think
From Sassy to Teen Vogue, a constellation of publications proved that fashion journalism could be sharp, political, and transformative—then the economic model collapsed. But the experiment survived: treating readers as intelligent co-conspirators, refusing to separate style from substance, and holding power accountable through cultural criticism. SEOULACIOUS carries this torch to Korea, where critical fashion journalism is needed most and exists least.
The Korean “Long Padding” Thing Is Already Over.
The Korean ‘long padding” trend has beenover for years. You just haven’t noticed yet since the coats are still out there, still in service. But new coats are shorter yet still serving their warming function.
The ₩82 Trillion Woman: Why Korean Fashion Finally Noticed Who Actually Buys the Clothes
How a Dying Burger Chain Became Seoul's Most Subversive Fashion Brand
Lotteria's journey from bankruptcy to Seoul Fashion Week runway reveals how Korean companies transform fast food into high fashion, weird burgers into viral content, and minimum-wage uniforms into streetwear statements. Inside the radical rebranding strategy that turned Korea's most ridiculed burger chain into an unlikely blueprint for global cultural production.
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