Seolhyun, a member of famous K-pop idol group AOA, returned to Youtube on August 2021, after nearly a year of social media silence. Following the AOA emotional abuse controversy in 2020, numerous calls were made for Seolhyun to be dropped from Awaken, a K-drama she was cast in. Her interview with wo

Our friendly neighborhood, Spiderman, returned to our side on December 15, 2021, with Spider-Man: No Way Home. Spider-Man: No Way Home is the first movie in Korea to be watched by more than 7 million people within a month in the COVID-19 era. Spider-Man series movies, including Spider-Man: No Way Ho

The dance competition program Street Woman Fighter (SWF) created a "K-dance syndrome" by highlighting the field of female dancers that have not been well known to the public. Since the first week of the broadcast, it has ranked No. 1 in popularity indexes. It also gained syndrome-class popularity, w

In Korea, "Home-Fitness" trend, 홈트(Home+training) is getting more popular People who have been training their bodies and minds by sweating in public sports facilities such as gyms, swimming pools, soccer fields and baseball stadiums changed their exercising place to their homes. According to the res

“We South Koreans and North Koreans were all there, waving the flag of South Korea.”- a interview of Kang Shin-sung, former ambassador of Somalia Escape from Mogadishu, which was released on July 21, hit the first 3-million-viewer mark this year in Korea even though Level 4 social distancing has bee

As K-pop spread around the world and caused the Korean Wave, it expanded more globally over the domestic fandom. Also, the market where fandom becomes an economic entity has grown. However, due to COVID-19, the K-pop industry has faced difficulties as performances for K-pop singers to communicate an

"Fashion goes round and round" Newtro” represents an unchanging truth in the fashion world. Recently, as the Newtro fever has begun in the fashion world, a large number of popular items in the 90s are coming back. Now people can easily find 90s fashion on the street again such as scrunchies, new typ

The thing is, I was born brilliant. Born bad. And a little bit mad. The sentence above is a line describing Cruella, the main character of this movie, itself. Her full name is Cruella De Vil, and even her name is a kind of calembour using "cruel" and "devil". Cruella is the villain character of the

Recently, K-pop has permeated the world of the metaverse in various ways. According to Wikipedia, the Metaverse is a collective virtual shared space, created by the convergence of virtually enhanced physical reality and physically persistent virtual space. The word "metaverse" is made up of the pref

In May, Chuu, a Korean idol member of Loona did Plogging with Hani and Chung Ha in episode 14 of the YouTube Channel “Chuu Can Do It”. This program was produced for raising awareness for environmental destruction issues and showing how people can protect the environment. Lately, as environmental pol

The movie Minari was first released in Korea on March 3, 2021, and has emerged as one of the most notable movies in the world, winning awards at the Golden Globe Foreign Language Film Awards and other famous overseas film festivals. As the movie Minari has won many awards and received various review

In recent years people have had easy access to news about racism such as “Black Lives Matter” and “Stop Asian Hate.” It shows us that racism still exists as social problems and it is a problem for mankind to solve. The movie Green Book shows the seriousness of black racism, and it may give an answer

A place where you can go wherever you want, where you can live what you want. It is the metaverse world from the movie Ready Player One. However, it is also paying attention to realities. That is, through this film, the audience can feel the wonderful virtual reality and the opposite. Maybe future M

In Korea, family movies tend to be very bright or so sad that make audience to shed tears, conveying the importance of family forcefully. Also, it is usually released on holidays such as Chuseok to be a box office hit. In this regard, Little Miss Sunshine, directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Fer

▲Louisa Clark and Will Traynor, the main characters of Me before you. Louisa and Will are on a date. “You are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning” It would be no exaggeration to say that half of the audience who watches the movie shed tears after hearing Will's lin

In 2020, people could see a clear sky as the greenhouse gas emission had been reduced due to the decrease of traffic volume and factory operations in the aftermath of COVID-19. However, the clean sky is a temporary phenomenon that hides an uncomfortable truth about the abnormal climate related to th

Recently, the popularity of an air fryer in Korea has been soaring. The air fryer is well known for simply cooking foods and reanimating foods which got cold. No matter who uses the air fryer, it can revive foods that are becoming tasteless. Also, through SNS, people enjoy creating and sharing new r

Soul (2021), a film produced by director Pete Doctor, is considered as a strong candidate for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature film in April for its special strengths in presenting original worldviews. The film consists of cute and bright characters, and a dark and heavy atmosphere. Also,

These days, when walking along the street, people can easily hear Trot songs. After a trot audition program called Mr. Trot gained popularity, people are becoming interested in trot again. As the Mr. trot gained popularity, Mr. Trot: The Movie was released on October 22. It contains not only the Mr.

The people in this picture are the members of a new dance group Refund Sisters(환불원정대). They actively worked on the stages and appeared on the show program. Even they won the first prize on the Music Core(쇼!음악중심), which is the music contest program of MBC. However, this group have something different