South Korea remains one of the few countries to require a medical degree for tattooing. In a recent congressional hearing, the law was challenged but voted in favor of maintenance. Despite walking on ...

We're surrounded these days by the products of Korea, K-Pop on playlists, demon hunters on movie screens, even Korean barbecue on dinner plates. NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports on another cultural export ...

South Korea has legalised tattoo artistry by non-medical professionals for the first time in more than 30 years, following a campaign by members of the profession to work without fear of prosecution ...

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s parliament has passed a bill to legalize tattoo artists, ending a decades-long ban on tattooing by those without medical licenses. The Tattooist Act passed ...

SEATTLE — Tattooing by people other than doctors has long been banned in Korea, but that didn’t stop Korean artists from making their mark overseas. Their intricate fine-line work turned heads in New ...

Pachinko is Apple’s most compelling K-drama. The acclaimed drama based on the bestselling novel by Min Jin Lee, in the series created by Soo Hugh, which is being called “one of the best adaptations of ...

When Alisha Gory moved to the U.S. from South Korea when she was 18 years old, she didn’t know what she was getting herself into. “It exposed me to a lot of different culture and it opened my mind,” ...

Thursday’s decision by the Constitutional Court of Seoul to uphold a law banning the practice of tattooing by non-medical professionals has sparked outrage among tattoo artists and advocates across ...

Goyang: As a popular tattoo artist in South Korea, Song Jaemin is fully booked weeks in advance and highly respected by his clients, some of whom come from abroad to see him. But each time Song inks ...