All Mori's Korea magazine stories — everything we've published, what's happening in Korea right now, and companion reads for the channel's videos.https://moryskorea.com/en-ushttps://moryskorea.com/magazine/jindo-dog/https://moryskorea.com/magazine/jindo-dog/A Natural Monument since 1962, a dog that came home across the country in 1993, and a law that keeps registered Jindos on their island. What's documented, what's legend, and where to see them in Jindo.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://moryskorea.com/magazine/autumn-leaves-forecast/https://moryskorea.com/magazine/autumn-leaves-forecast/Autumn colour starts at the summits and comes down. Seoraksan logged its first colour on September 28; Bukhansan, inside Seoul, is still weeks away. How to pick your week, get to both mountains, and eat well in Gangwon.Mon, 28 Sep 2026 05:46:00 GMThttps://moryskorea.com/magazine/gangnam-festival-kpop-concert/https://moryskorea.com/magazine/gangnam-festival-kpop-concert/Seven acts, one boulevard, a ticket price of zero (plus a 3,000-won booking fee) — but getting in runs through a Ticketlink booking, an ID check, and a wristband. Here's what's happening at the 2026 Gangnam Festival on October 4, and how to plan around it.Mon, 28 Sep 2026 02:40:00 GMThttps://moryskorea.com/magazine/pc-bang-tourism/https://moryskorea.com/magazine/pc-bang-tourism/Foreign tourist spending on K-leisure — PC bangs, karaoke rooms and traditional culture experiences — jumped 35.8% year on year in early 2026. Ground zero is a 24-hour gaming café built by Faker's own esports team — and from September 29 to October 2, Faker is chasing a second Asian Games gold medal against seven other nations, including Team India.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 23:05:00 GMThttps://moryskorea.com/magazine/k-hiking/https://moryskorea.com/magazine/k-hiking/Korea's national parks logged an estimated 2.05 million foreign visits last year — more than double the previous count, though the park service changed how it counts — and one of the busiest mountains, Bukhansan, sits inside Seoul's own city limits.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 22:10:00 GMThttps://moryskorea.com/magazine/korean-pharmacy-shopping/https://moryskorea.com/magazine/korean-pharmacy-shopping/Foreign tourists' card spending at Korean pharmacies in May 2026 was 206% above a year earlier — the fastest growth of any sub-category, ahead of duty-free and department stores. Multiple data sources agree on the direction even when they disagree on the exact number.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:20:00 GMThttps://moryskorea.com/magazine/seoul-fever/https://moryskorea.com/magazine/seoul-fever/Tearful airport-train clips on Chinese social media helped spread a slang term — Seoul sickness — that K-pop fans picked up and Busan's tourism board borrowed for a campaign, with repeat-visit booking data pointing the same way.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:10:00 GMThttps://moryskorea.com/magazine/olive-young-sanrio-collab/https://moryskorea.com/magazine/olive-young-sanrio-collab/K-beauty's biggest retailer teamed up with Sanrio for its largest Sanrio collab yet — 81 brands, 321 products, and a Hello Kitty redesigned around hanbok colors with foreign visitors in mind. Campaign dates: August 30 through September 30, 2026.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:10:00 GMThttps://moryskorea.com/magazine/dak-hanmari/https://moryskorea.com/magazine/dak-hanmari/A cheap 1970s market dish is now a must-stop for Japanese visitors to Seoul — viral knife-work videos, a national instant-noodle tie-in, and climbing prices to prove it.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:22:00 GMThttps://moryskorea.com/magazine/geumsan-ginseng-festival/https://moryskorea.com/magazine/geumsan-ginseng-festival/Geumsan's own legend says its ginseng started with a mountain spirit and a dying mother's prayer 1,500 years ago — but what the UN actually recognized in 2018 was the farming method itself, the first ginseng system anywhere to make that list. Ten days of root-digging, red ginseng foot baths, and Korea's biggest ginseng market.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 11:27:00 GMThttps://moryskorea.com/magazine/jeongjo-procession-palace-festival/https://moryskorea.com/magazine/jeongjo-procession-palace-festival/Two royal events land in the same October week — a full-scale reenactment of King Jeongjo's 1795 procession setting out from Gyeongbokgung on October 4, and the Royal Culture Festival opening four palaces and Jongmyo from October 7 to 11. Here's the announced schedule, what's free, and how visitors from abroad actually book a seat.Mon, 14 Sep 2026 20:20:00 GMThttps://moryskorea.com/magazine/jinju-namgang-yudeung-festival/https://moryskorea.com/magazine/jinju-namgang-yudeung-festival/Korea's biggest water-lantern festival floats 16 nights of lanterns on the river where they were first used as a battlefield signal in 1592. Free to walk into, newly funded as one of three national 'Global Festivals' — here's the official 2026 program, the prices, and how to get there.Mon, 14 Sep 2026 20:07:00 GMThttps://moryskorea.com/magazine/budae-jjigae/https://moryskorea.com/magazine/budae-jjigae/Born from scavenged US Army base surplus after the Korean War — Spam, sausage, and baked beans boiled into a pot with kimchi and gochujang — and one Seoul version still carries the name Johnson, though the story that it honors a US president turns out to be shakier than it sounds.Sat, 12 Sep 2026 17:22:00 GMThttps://moryskorea.com/magazine/japchae/https://moryskorea.com/magazine/japchae/Its own name means 'mixed vegetables,' and for roughly three centuries that's all it was — the glass noodles everyone pictures today didn't arrive until a 1919 factory changed the recipe for good.Sat, 12 Sep 2026 17:06:00 GMThttps://moryskorea.com/magazine/jeonju-hanok-village/https://moryskorea.com/magazine/jeonju-hanok-village/It looks like the one neighborhood Korea's rapid modernization skipped over. It wasn't preserved that way by accident — it was built on purpose, twice, a century apart, and its own popularity is now pricing out the people who kept it real.Sat, 12 Sep 2026 17:05:00 GMThttps://moryskorea.com/magazine/chodang-sundubu/https://moryskorea.com/magazine/chodang-sundubu/A 16th-century scholar gets credit for curdling tofu with seawater instead of brine — except a royal record from a century earlier already describes the same technique, and the village's real signature dish isn't the spicy stew most people picture.Sat, 12 Sep 2026 16:54:00 GMThttps://moryskorea.com/magazine/bulgogi/https://moryskorea.com/magazine/bulgogi/The 2,000-year Goguryeo origin story has real gaps, and a 2018 fight over the word itself still isn't settled — plus the marinade that actually separates bulgogi from samgyeopsal and galbi.Sat, 12 Sep 2026 16:37:00 GMThttps://moryskorea.com/magazine/samgyetang/https://moryskorea.com/magazine/samgyetang/A whole young chicken stuffed with ginseng, rice, and jujube, eaten boiling hot on purpose — the iyeolchiyeol ('fight heat with heat') logic behind one of Korea's most counterintuitive summer traditions.Sat, 12 Sep 2026 16:26:00 GMThttps://moryskorea.com/magazine/jajangmyeon/https://moryskorea.com/magazine/jajangmyeon/It reads as standard Chinese takeout, but the dish barely exists in China — Chinese dock laborers invented it in 1880s Incheon, and a 1948 factory recipe made it black and sweet.Sat, 12 Sep 2026 16:09:00 GMThttps://moryskorea.com/magazine/busan-international-film-festival/https://moryskorea.com/magazine/busan-international-film-festival/Korea's biggest film festival returns for its 31st edition — 315 films, a new top prize, and announced guests including Isabelle Huppert and Michelle Yeoh in Busan from October 6 to 15.Sat, 12 Sep 2026 15:32:00 GMThttps://moryskorea.com/magazine/chuseok-convenience-store/https://moryskorea.com/magazine/chuseok-convenience-store/CU, GS25, 7-Eleven, and Emart24 all sold Chuseok lunchboxes built for one this year — and three years of sales data say it's working.Sat, 12 Sep 2026 15:25:00 GMThttps://moryskorea.com/magazine/haenyeo/https://moryskorea.com/magazine/haenyeo/The women on Jeju's postcards and souvenir shelves aren't a folklore mascot — they're real free-divers, most in their 60s to 80s, working without oxygen tanks, and there are fewer of them every year.Sat, 12 Sep 2026 14:50:00 GMThttps://moryskorea.com/magazine/bulguksa-seokguram/https://moryskorea.com/magazine/bulguksa-seokguram/The wooden halls are a 1970s reconstruction, and the Buddha everyone photographs has been sealed behind glass just as long — what's actually 1,300 years old here, and what isn't.Sat, 12 Sep 2026 14:26:00 GMThttps://moryskorea.com/magazine/naengmyeon/https://moryskorea.com/magazine/naengmyeon/Korea's go-to hot-weather noodles are a northern winter tradition a war carried south — split the whole way into two completely different bowls.Sat, 12 Sep 2026 14:16:00 GMThttps://moryskorea.com/magazine/bibimbap/https://moryskorea.com/magazine/bibimbap/It looks too neatly arranged to disturb — but mixing it thoroughly is the entire point of the dish.Sat, 12 Sep 2026 14:02:00 GMThttps://moryskorea.com/magazine/samgyeopsal/https://moryskorea.com/magazine/samgyeopsal/Grilled at the table, wrapped in lettuce, gone in one bite — here's how the wrap actually goes together.Sat, 12 Sep 2026 14:02:00 GMThttps://moryskorea.com/magazine/dwaeji-gukbap/https://moryskorea.com/magazine/dwaeji-gukbap/Korean War refugees are the reason the bowl turned cloudy and pork-bone rich — and Busan still eats it by its own rules.Sat, 12 Sep 2026 13:56:00 GMThttps://moryskorea.com/magazine/andong-mask-dance-festival/https://moryskorea.com/magazine/andong-mask-dance-festival/Korea's own UNESCO-listed mask dance tradition is hosting 28 performance teams from 24 countries in a small Gyeongbuk city through October 4. Here's what's happening, and how to plan around it.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 09:10:00 GMThttps://moryskorea.com/magazine/low-theft-culture/https://moryskorea.com/magazine/low-theft-culture/Leave a laptop on a café table, a package on the doorstep, or a rack of clothes on the sidewalk — in Korea, it just sits there. Here's what the data actually says about why.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 13:26:00 GMThttps://moryskorea.com/magazine/hangul-day/https://moryskorea.com/magazine/hangul-day/Most alphabets evolved over centuries with no single author — Hangul has a king, a year, and a document explaining why every letter looks the way it does.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 09:14:00 GMThttps://moryskorea.com/magazine/autumn-foliage/https://moryskorea.com/magazine/autumn-foliage/The color starts in the northeast mountains and rolls south for weeks — here's where it peaks first, and where to catch it last.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 09:14:00 GMThttps://moryskorea.com/magazine/olive-young-us/https://moryskorea.com/magazine/olive-young-us/Korea's biggest beauty retailer opened real stores in California. Here's what's there, and what's still Korea-only.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 03:34:00 GMThttps://moryskorea.com/magazine/tteokbokki/https://moryskorea.com/magazine/tteokbokki/No fish cake? No problem. Here's the version that actually shows up at family dinners.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 01:32:00 GMThttps://moryskorea.com/magazine/skincare/https://moryskorea.com/magazine/skincare/What actually matters in a Korean routine, and what you can skip without guilt.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 01:32:00 GMThttps://moryskorea.com/magazine/fireworks/https://moryskorea.com/magazine/fireworks/About a million people along the Han River on September 5, per the organizer. What went down, and how to plan for next year.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 01:32:00 GMThttps://moryskorea.com/magazine/seoul-4-days/https://moryskorea.com/magazine/seoul-4-days/Walkable mornings, transit-light afternoons, and the cafés worth the detour.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 01:32:00 GMT