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The Power of “Pretty”: How Apple Went From Obscure Print Shop Tool to Korea's Most Coveted Object
This is the story of how a luxury foreign brand captured an entire generation of young Korean women by being expensive, starting from the most unlikely place: the cramped print shops of 1980s Euljiro.
The Coffee Republic: Inside Korea's Female-Powered Café Revolution
From King Gojong's first sip in 1896 to today's Instagram café empires, Korea transformed into the planet's third-largest coffee market—driven by female consumers whose choices reshaped entire neighborhoods and sparked a national reckoning about gender, class, and what it means to be modern.
The Tattoo Artist Who Broke the Law 20,000 Times
When one in four Koreans had tattoos while tattooing remained illegal, something had to break—and on September 25, 2025, Korea's National Assembly voted 195-0 to end the 33-year absurdity that made BTS's tattoo artists criminals while their work shaped global aesthetics.
How Korea Made Garter Stockings Street Legal
The punk accessory from Balenciaga runways landed in Hongdae alleys—and nobody's asking permission anymore.
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