Luxury womenswear platform Net-A-Porter has unveiled its latest fashion edit, promoting emerging designers from South Korea.…
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Korea’s convenience store chains seek growth abroad
Convenience store chains are mobilizing more resources to establish a larger presence abroad as they struggle with sluggish consumption and intensifying competition at home, according to industry offi…
BTS x Uniqlo collaboration
Expect long lines, and perhaps a stampede, at Uniqlo stores around the world as the Japanese company debuts a capsule collection with K-pop supergroup BTS.…
Korea’s homegrown characters going global
Korea’s home-grown characters are gaining increasing popularity abroad, buoyed by the country’s advanced information technology and the increased popularity of hallyu.…
K-fashion, beauty, pop fuel 25% growth in Korean e-commerce exports
South Korea’s online exports surged 25 percent in 2018 from a year ago on the back of growing demand for K-beauty and K-pop related items such as album records and stationery supplies, government data…
What’s behind Style Nanda’s success?
When Style Nanda announced last month that French beauty giant L’Oreal will be snapping up a majority stake, it sent shockwaves across the industry.…
South Korean cosmetics to seduce Europe
South Korean cosmetics brands, wildly successful at home and across Asia, now have their eye on the European beauty market where their penetration is, for now, only skin-deep.…
Top 10 controversies in China’s luxury industry for 2016
From geopolitical disputes to debates over cultural appropriation, China tends to be a place where it’s easy for foreign brands to get embroiled in controversies no matter how hard they try to avoid i…
Hyundai Department Store buys SK’s brands
South Korea’s Hyundai Department Store is creating a giant fashion business as it buys SK Networks’ fashion operations for KRW326.1bn (£220m/$284m). The purchase should be completed by Feb…
South Korean cosmetics: The big winners in China
South Korean labels were the big winners in FT Confidential Research’s latest survey of China’s most popular cosmetics brands, as they catch up on dominant US and European companies. Thei…