Joohee Jang is a 31-year-old South Korean office worker who balances a day job at a foreign shipping company with something ...

No matter where you live, people make judgments based on how you look. Those judgments are a little different in different places, as one of our longtime colleagues discovered when she moved. NPR's ...

Elise Hu spent almost four years as NPR’s first Seoul, South Korea, bureau chief. During that time, Hu experienced what she calls an “endless assault of images of the ideal Korean beauty.” Hu explores ...

Elise Hu moved to Seoul, South Korea to set up an NPR bureau and report on the geopolitical tensions of the mid-2010s. But her new book, Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty ...

In this op-ed, Korean-American writer Rosa Jisoo Pyo explores how the popularity of K-beauty has reinforced harsh beauty standards and how many Korean women are striving to change that. When I went to ...