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Nobody comes to South Korea expecting a desert. Yet roughly 19 kilometres from the North Korean coast, on a border island most Koreans have never visited, there is a genuine sea of sand. Locals call it the Korean Sahara. It once covered 660,000 square metres, which is about seventy football pitches of open dune. Today, most of it is gone. The story of how Korea sand dunes van...

On a July morning in Busan, a room full of delegates voted on a pile of mud.

The Getbol Korean tidal flats had just been enlarged as a UNESCO World Heritage site. These are the vast, grey, glistening plains that appear twice a day along the country’s western and southern coas...

Ask a foreign visitor what they expect from a Korean winter, and many will describe something they saw in a drama: a white mountain, a frozen lake, a couple in long coats under falling flakes. Then comes the follow-up question that arrives in travel forums every single autumn. Does Korea have eternal snow, the kind that never melts? The answer is no, and it has always been n...

On 23 January 2026, a young fighter named Kuk Seung-jun climbed out of a ring in Seoul carrying a championship belt. He also carried a flagship SUV and 300 million won in prize money, or roughly $210,000. He had just won I AM BOXER, a survival series built by the actor Ma Dong-seok. Across Asia, several million people watched it happen.

Meanwhile, a less flatt...

Somewhere in Chungcheong province, an 18-hole course with a clubhouse worth more than most Seoul apartment towers is sitting on the market. The asking price started near ₩250 billion. Then it dropped to ₩200 billion. Even so, the private equity firm that spent months looking at it walked away — because the drive from Seoul was fifteen minutes too long.

That single deal...