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  1. Knotted's Donut Chapssal-tteok: Only at Lotte World Mall, from 2 p.m.
  2. Lotte World's 'Tomie Injection Ade', Until Nov. 15
  3. Seoul BBQ Festival at Nanji Campground, Oct. 24–25
  4. Last Day to See Everland's Twin Pandas Is Dec. 11
  5. Namsan's 'Goblin Bench' Was Once a Wishing Rock for Children
  6. Two Quiet Hours After Work in Seoul: 7 Places, Day by Day
  7. No Reservation? 4 Walk-In Seoul Plans, Oct. 24–25
  8. Twosome's First US Store Opens to Queues in Virginia
  9. Why 500,000 Hanjeongseon Rice Cakes Sold at Convenience Stores
  10. Bokkeum Neoguri Returns Oct. 27 After Two Years
  11. Kimchangsoo 'Gimpo 2026' Whisky Hits Korean Convenience Stores
  12. Why Russians Call Instant Noodles 'Dosirac'
  13. Captain Q Is Back in Korean Convenience Stores From Oct. 21
  14. Cabbage got cheaper, radish didn't: the 2026 kimjang bill
  15. Anseong Halloween Night Market, Fridays and Saturdays From Oct. 23
  16. Hot-Pack Sales Up 1,700% at Korean Convenience Stores
  17. Seoul's First Official List of 50 Dessert Spots
  18. Seven-Eleven's Nurungji and Yakgwa Snacks for Visitors
  19. Tous Les Jours' Pumpkin Injeolmi Bread and 4 More
  20. 'Geoje Yaho' Makes a Girl Group Honorary Citizens
  21. UNESCO Listed Kimjang, Not Kimchi: This Year's Costs
  22. Isaac Toast Sauce Tops Incheon Airport Duty-Free Sales
  23. Jjajangmyeon Became Standard Korean Only in 2011
  24. Why Korean Convenience-Store Freezers Are Dessert Hot Spots
  25. Counting rods and abacuses: numbers moved by hand
  26. Opening a book your neighbor chose
  27. Dalgona: a small pan, a pressed shape, a game
  28. Neoguring brings Neoguri seasoning to Yangpa Ring snacks
  29. Banchan: getting to know Korea’s small side dishes
  30. A 4.5cm frog for the writing desk: a water dropper for ink
  31. Gambas Jjapagetti arrives at Emart first on October 27
  32. Bokkeum Neoguri Returns in Limited Packs, Oct. 27
  33. Haeju soban: a small wooden table that carried a meal
  34. Egg Bread to Sweet Potatoes: Korea's Winter Snacks
  35. Tofu Lattes at Gangneung Coffee Festival, Oct. 21–25
  36. When Koreans listened on Walkman, mymy and AH-HA
  37. Life on Korea's 1990s PC Networks
  38. How noraebang gave everyone a turn
  39. From Sticker Sheets to Four-Cut Photos in Korea
  40. Hwagak chambit: a bamboo comb with painted-horn decoration
  41. Seven-Eleven's Nama Choco Pie Gateau Chocolat, ₩4,000
  42. Help pick Shin Ramyun’s 40th-anniversary flavor by Oct. 18
  43. Nongshim Saengsaeng Shin Toomba: Chewy Fresh Noodles
  44. Pizza seolgi at a Jamsil rice-cake pop-up and Pizza Hut
  45. Baskin Robbins’ October flavor came from a customer contest
  46. Hanjeongseon pistachio rice cake reaches stores Oct. 15
  47. Run Anyangcheon, Get a Fruta Discount, Until Oct. 31
  48. GS25's October-Only 13-Dish Lunchbox
  49. Dig potatoes at Starfield Suwon, then find potato bread
  50. Mrs. Muk at Jeju’s Dongmun Market tops muk with pudding
  51. Sungsimdang, Daejeon: A Bakery Trip From Fried Soboro
  52. Pumpkin-Sikhye Ice at Kohojae, Korea House
  53. A Twosome Place’s new autumn drink: Black Cheese Foam Latte
  54. Harim Chicken Steak adds tenderloin, first at GS THE FRESH
  55. ‘15 strawberries’ on Denmark fruit milk refers to fiber
  56. How Japan reacted to ARIH’s gochujang butter at 7-Eleven
  57. Noodle Run: Gwangju to Damyang Noodle Street
  58. Old digicams come out of the drawer: what ‘dinol’ means
  59. Play Rules Learned at Korea's School-Front Stationery Shops
  60. Hoecnic: taking raw fish to the Han River in autumn
  61. Why pour water into the rice pot?
  62. Reading snack ingredient labels with the Foodlab app
  63. Leave one small gap in the weekend
  64. An arrow can carry a message: sinjeon, yeongjeon and hyosi
  65. Why Honguju makes shows together at a local venue
  66. What did a wooden wedding goose promise?
  67. Two songs Seoul and Tokyo made together at Soundnaru
  68. An Afternoon at Anguk's Hansik Library
  69. CHOYY’s self-produced single “Apple Juice”
  70. From a game soundtrack to Saebit’s own songs
  71. BEO PORT opens October 14 on Busan’s Dalmaji-gil
  72. What would your name look like in Hangul?
  73. Shin Seung Hun sings his own “Invisible Love”
  74. Does a pillow have to be soft?
  75. What makes a good night? Looking beyond spending
  76. What did Koreans keep in a bandaji?
  77. A small thank-you after the meal
  78. Joseon chaekgeori paintings: books, but also vases and fruit
  79. A century of change in the shape of gomusin
  80. A pollack by the door, a wish for a peaceful home
  81. A needle case worn as a norigae with hanbok
  82. When Did Korea Start Eating Hotteok?
  83. Maetdol, the stones that turned grain into meals
  84. After the washing came dadeumi
  85. Banjitgori, the box that kept sewing tools together
  86. Before transit cards: Seoul’s little bus tokens
  87. Four yut sticks, and everyone has a strategy
  88. Dongmulwon’s “Hyehwa-dong,” a song about an old friend
  89. Kim Soo-chul’s “A Flower That Never Bloomed,” live in 1984
  90. LEENALCHI’s “Tiger Is Coming” onstage in 2019
  91. The little stamp behind patterns on Korean rice cakes
  92. Exhibition’s “Etude of Memory” and where the duo began
  93. Why is the Monami 153 hexagonal? Plus a DIY color kit
  94. The Double Arch Under Bulguksa's Cheongungyo Bridge
  95. The Baekje Incense Burner: Phoenix, Peaks and Musicians
  96. What Was in the Drawers of a Korean Herbal Shop?
  97. Lee Moon-sae’s “A Little Girl,” live in 2018
  98. Why a Korean moon jar is not a perfect circle
  99. When printing a book meant casting letters one by one
  100. Why the Silla horse-rider figure is hollow inside
  101. ‘Around Thirty,’ sung by the man who wrote it
  102. What We Notice When a Street Makes Room
  103. “The Blue in You” by Kim Hyun-chul: what the song is about
  104. “What’s Wrong?” by Kim Hyun-chul: what the song is about
  105. You Don’t Have to See Everything
  106. A song that feels like a memory: Jang Pil-soon’s Eoneusae
  107. It looks like abstract art. It began as a wrapping cloth.
  108. That shimmer is shell, not paint
  109. ‘Hanok’ is a newer word than the houses it names
  110. At a Korean restaurant, the meal often starts with banchan
  111. Fried chicken, delivered to your Hangang picnic
  112. T-money started with Seoul’s public-transport reform
  113. Some Seoul apartments charge for food waste by weight
  114. Why are Seoul’s pregnancy-priority seats pink?
  115. Why do Koreans take their shoes off before entering a home?
  116. The story behind Seoul’s hard-to-find street bins
  117. Why do you tap your transit card again when getting off a Korean bus?
  118. A ‘허, 하 or 호’ on a Korean plate means a rental car
  119. Korea’s 119 began as a number for reporting fires
  120. Why does the Seoul subway deliberately have ‘less cool’ cars?
  121. Return an empty soju bottle, get your deposit back
  122. What sari means in ramyeon-sari: one coil of noodles
  123. In Eojjeoda Majuchin Geudae, eojjeoda means ‘by chance’
  124. CU sounds like “see you” on purpose
  125. On Korean eggs, the first 4 of 10 characters are the lay date
  126. Those giant umbrellas by Seoul crosswalks are public heat shelters
  127. That extra ₩500 on a Seoul single-ride ticket is a refundable deposit
  128. It’s ‘왠지’ but ‘웬일’: when to write 왠 and 웬
  129. How the big 辛 on Shin Ramyun changed a labeling rule
  130. That red button on a Korean restaurant table is meant to be pressed
  131. Why does the floor warm up first when you turn on the heat in a Korean home?
  132. Talking crosswalk signals help blind pedestrians cross
  133. For “soon,” write ‘금세,’ not ‘금새’
  134. Hangang ramyeon, cooked by machine at riverside stores
  135. Why are so many Seoul taxis orange?
  136. At a Korean PC bang, you can order a meal from your seat
  137. Why does a baby choose an object on their first birthday?
  138. Bungeoppang: fish-shaped, filled with red bean, no fish
  139. Even Starbucks wears a Hangeul sign in Insa-dong
  140. Onggi, the clay jars called ‘breathing vessels’
  141. Why are Korean expressway rest areas so big?
  142. Jangseung, the carved guardians of village entrances
  143. Seoul’s platform screen doors began as a fall-prevention measure
  144. Hanok windows covered with hanji instead of glass
  145. Before texting, Koreans learned to read feelings in numbers
  146. Haitai has fermented Matdongsan dough to gugak since 2010
  147. In the 1990s, a Korean wedding favor could be a telephone card
  148. In the 1980s, Korean pupils waxed their classroom floors themselves
  149. Why did Seoul bus conductors shout “Orai!” before departure?
  150. A Korean dabang was closer to an urban living room than a coffee shop
  151. Bacchus D and F differ in more than their labels
  152. Korean address numbers offer clues to a building’s location
  153. “Old Love” by Lee Moon-sae: what the song is about
  154. “Gwanghwamun Love Song” by Lee Moon-sae: what the song is about
  155. “Girl” by Lee Moon-sae: what the song is about
  156. “Around Thirty” by Kim Kwang-seok: what the song is about
  157. “Though I Loved You” by Kim Kwang-seok: what the song is about
  158. “Story of a Couple in Their Sixties” by Kim Kwang-seok: what the song is about
  159. “To J” by Lee Sun-hee: what the song is about
  160. “Fate” by Lee Sun-hee: what the song is about
  161. “River Flows in You” by Yiruma: what the song is about
  162. “Kiss the Rain” by Yiruma: what the song is about
  163. “Because I Love You” by Yoo Jae-ha: what the song is about
  164. “In My Arms” by Yoo Jae-ha: what the song is about
  165. “Past Days” by Yoo Jae-ha: what the song is about
  166. “Chopin: Scherzo No. 2 in B-flat Minor, Op. 31” by Seong-Jin Cho: what the song is about
  167. “To You” by Shin Hae-chul: what the song is about
  168. “Hello” by Shin Hae-chul: what the song is about
  169. “Jazz Cafe” by Shin Hae-chul: what the song is about
  170. “Fly, Little Chick” by Shin Hae-chul: what the song is about
  171. “Dream of a Freshwater Eel” by Shin Hae-chul: what the song is about
  172. “Ani Beolsseo (Already?)” by Sanullim: what the song is about
  173. “The Shadow of Goodbye” by Yoon Sang: what the song is about
  174. “Between Hidden Moments” by Yoon Sang: what the song is about
  175. “One Step More” by Yoon Sang: what the song is about
  176. “Moving” by Yoon Sang: what the song is about
  177. “As Always” by Yoon Sang: what the song is about
  178. “A Train to Chuncheon” by Kim Hyun-chul: what the song is about
  179. “Neighborhood” by Kim Hyun-chul: what the song is about
  180. “The Fall of the Moon” by Kim Hyun-chul: what the song is about
  181. “Dating” by Kim Hyun-chul: what the song is about
  182. “Is Anybody There?” by Han Young-ae: what the song is about
  183. “Rapids” by Han Young-ae: what the song is about
  184. “Tuning” by Han Young-ae: what the song is about
  185. “Rhinoceros” by Han Young-ae: what the song is about
  186. “Lucille” by Han Young-ae: what the song is about
  187. Songpyeon smell of pine because they steam on needles
  188. Korea’s first instant ramen went on sale September 15, 1963
  189. Choco Pie’s 情 goes back to Orion’s 1989 campaign
  190. Korea’s legal age standard counts completed years
  191. ‘PLASTIC OTHER’ on Korean packaging is a material label
  192. It’s ‘웬일이야?’, not ‘왠일이야?’
  193. Korean restaurants hand you scissors for meat and naengmyeon
  194. Why Korean homes keep a separate fridge for kimchi
  195. Write ‘며칠,’ not ‘몇 일’
  196. From tokens to tap cards: how Seoul paid its bus fares
  197. In Korea, “service” can mean “on the house”
  198. From 011 and 017 to 010: Korea’s mobile number prefix
  199. Read Seoul buses by color, then by number
  200. A Poem Remembered by Mouth Before Meaning
  201. He Left Korea, but His Paintings Kept Returning to Memory
  202. Why “Silence” Still Speaks a Century Later
  203. Travel Leaves What You Noticed, Not Just Where You Went
  204. A Hundred-Year-Old Song Is Still Unfinished
  205. The Vault Lasted Seconds. Getting Back Took Longer.
  206. The Marathon Ended Before the Battery Did
  207. Toward Someone Who Is Waiting
  208. Autumn Deepens Through a Moment of Balance
  209. See the Person, Not Just the Memory
  210. A Familiar Road Can Become New Again
  211. Possibility Takes Time to See
  212. Culture Feels Closer Outside the Building
  213. When the City Becomes a Stage
  214. What We Notice When We Slow Down
  215. Nam June Paik: a figure in Korean history
  216. Na Tae-joo: a figure in Korean history
  217. Na Un-gyu: a figure in Korean history
  218. Kim Whanki: a figure in Korean history
  219. Kim Sowol: a figure in Korean history
  220. Yun Dong-ju: a figure in Korean history
  221. Kim Gu: a figure in Korean history
  222. Jeong Hyeon-jong
  223. Park Mok-wol: a figure in Korean history
  224. Yi Yuksa: a figure in Korean history
  225. Na Hye-sok: a figure in Korean history
  226. Han Yong-un: a figure in Korean history