On a recent trip to Korea, a beauty and lifestyle influencer allegedly encountered two men who made fatphobic comments toward her. Natalie Naploes (@naploes), a Singaporean content creator and college ...

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 ...

In the past decade, a quiet revolution in beauty has been unfolding—and it’s led by South Korea. What started as a niche fascination with flawless skin and innovative products has evolved into a ...

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 ...

In June 2019, Sulli, a former member of the Korean girl group f(x), began hosting a talk show known as The Night of Malicious Comments, a show that featured Korean celebrities reading hate comments ...

Growing up as a Korean American girl in a predominantly white suburb of Chicago, I had a very specific idea of what beauty was. It only took me until the age of about eight to realize that I was not ...