From Makers Of Weight-Loss Pills To Anti-Wrinkle Shots, Meet South Korea’s Lab-Grown Billionaires

Korea’s biotech sector is churning out new fortunes as Big Pharma closes in with lucrative deals for everything from ...

Samsung’s Jay Y. Lee Is Once Again South Korea’s Richest Person On Sizzling Sales Of AI Chips

This story is part of Forbes’ coverage of Korea’s Richest 2026. See the full list here.

My Mother Taught Me to Cook Like a Somali. I Want to Teach the World.

The cookbook author and chef Ifrah F. Ahmed turned her mom’s mission — preserving a culinary tradition — into her own.
Bowdoin College

Chinwe Bruns ’26 and Lilly Curtis ’26 Receive Watson Fellowships to Learn from Traveling

Bruns and Curtis are joining the fellowship's fifty-eighth class. Since 1968, the Watson Foundation has been funding the ...
Stephen Follows

Did Parasite change how audiences think about South Korean cinema?

I crunched eight years of Wikipedia data and 10 million reviews across nine Oscar-winning countries and 12,267 films to find out whether the Parasite effect was real or not.

K-pop, K-dramas feed South Korean language boom

Asians outnumbered as Korean language learners. These people studying at Seoul's Yonsei University all have the same purpose: to learn Korean. In the past, language students like ...