YOUR WINDOW INTO K-CULTURE
Korean music, faces and stories worth knowing.
Jung Yu-mi’s perfume featured by Allure Korea is Glossier You. The useful detail is the exact name: the original You fragrance, rather than every newer perfume carrying the You name. Allure’s December 2022 article provides the celebrity connection; Glossier’s current product page explains the eau de parfum, sizes and fragrance notes.If you discovered it through a Korean celebrity recommendation,..
Read story ↗Nam Yoon-su’s soy milk chicken soup uses bite-sized chicken, unsweetened soy milk and three kinds of mushrooms. Despite the Korean recipe title duyu samgyetang, the published ingredient list does not call for a whole stuffed chicken, glutinous rice or ginseng. If you are looking for the version from KBS Fun-staurant, start with this distinction.Photo: KBS Fun-staurant.The ingredients in the offi..
Read story ↗MEOVV’s Narin showed two novels in Vogue Japan: Choi Eun-young’s Korean-language 밝은 밤 and Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio. If you noticed a pink book in her belongings, Catalina is the title to look for. The two books are separate works, not volumes in a series.Which books did Narin introduce?The November 28, 2025 feature shows both covers. Narin described the story across generations in..
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