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Culture
The Most Beautiful Festival of the Year : Salone del Mobile.Milano
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OCTOBER 30, 2026
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People
5 min read
Samsung Design at Milan: Mauro Porcini's Vision
At Milan Design Week, Samsung presented more than products—it introduced a new philosophy where technology begins with people.
Culture
12 min
The Cherry Orchard at Park Avenue Armory: Beyond the Subtitles
Park Hae-soo, Jeon Do-yeon, and Saul Kim’s transparent house: The Cherry Orchard on language, class, and the work of understanding another person
Sep 30, 2026
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Science
6 min
The Friendship Behind the Future of AI
At The Korea Society’s 2026 Annual Gala, Jensen Huang’s Van Fleet Award brought NVIDIA, Samsung and SK together in a celebration of the relationships shaping the next era of technology.
Sep 29, 2026
Science
8 min
When AI Says “I”
Brad Smith and Kevin Rudd on artificial intelligence, human dignity, and the future we must choose to create
Sep 21, 2026
Art
3 min
Tchah Sup Kim: The Key to a New World
At the Korean Cultural Center New York, a retrospective brings an artist’s expansive questions into focus through paintings, everyday objects, and encounters in the gallery.
Sep 18, 2026
Long Read
7 min read
The Man Who Keeps Following the Story
Lee Dong-won on stories, curiosity, and a life that refuses to be defined by one destination.
Sep 17, 2026
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Culture
8 min
Dafna Zur: Building Bridges Between Cultures
From learning a language to understanding a culture—and ultimately carrying it forward to another generation, Dafna Zur’s journey asks what kind of people, and what kind of world, we hope to leave behind.
People
24 min
Protecting Women’s Lives Through Technology and Compassion
Women’s Health Conditions and Infertility Are Not Merely Personal Issues. They Are a Shared Human Concern.
Culture
10 min
When Cinema Becomes Culture: Samuel Jamier on NYAFF at 25
The festival’s executive director reflects on Asian cinema, Korea’s creative strengths, and the enduring power of watching together.
Design
8 min
A Table for One, A Dialogue with the World
At ADI Design Museum, Seoul transformed the traditional Korean soban into a contemporary language of craft, technology, and cultural identity.
Art
7 min
What Art Carries Forward
At TEFAF New York 2026, the past was not presented as a closed chapter, but entrusted to the future.
Art
6 min
Dabin Ahn and the Quiet Architecture of Memory
From Golden Days in Los Angeles to Frieze New York 2026, the Korean born Chicago based artist transforms grief, light, and passing time into sculptural paintings that ask viewers to slow down.
Design
24 min
Hermès and the Architecture of Patience at Milan Design Week 2026
Inside La Pelota, the French maison created a quiet city of objects where material, craftsmanship, and space came together through a measured journey of discovery.
Science
6 min
The Future Is No Longer Waiting
GPT-6 Astra and the accelerating question of how humans will adapt to a future already in motion
Design
7 min
A House of Many Languages: 10 Corso Como at Milan Design Week 2026
Across its gallery, rooftop, Project Room, store, and secret garden, the Milanese landmark revealed how thoughtful curation can turn different creative disciplines into one evolving cultural experience.
Culture
8 min
NYAFF at 25: The People Building Asian Cinema?s Next Chapter
From celebrated stars and restored classics to emerging filmmakers and the producers behind the frame, the New York Asian Film Festival marked its 25th edition by expanding the possibilities of Asian cinema.
Design
7 min
Lisa Corti: A House of Color in Brera
At her new Brera boutique, Lisa Corti transforms textiles, tableware, and everyday rituals into a vivid interior shaped by memory, craft, and color.
Culture
6 min
HALLAN Brings the Untold Story of Jeju 4.3 to a Global Audience
Director Ha Myung-mi and actress Kim Hyang-gi discuss memory, humanity, and why one of Korea’s deepest historical tragedies still speaks to the world.
Design
8 min
BECOMING: Where Memory Learns to Move
At Milan Design Week 2026, Rimadesio transformed its seventieth anniversary into an evolving encounter between glass, light, sound and architecture.
Culture
10 min
Journey There: Thinking About Death, Learning How to Live
Director Kim Jin-yu and Justin H. Min Explore Life Through the Question of Death
Design
6 min
Light in Motion: Lodes Reframes the Architecture of Illumination
How a Venetian lighting house transformed illumination into a language of balance, movement, and contemporary space.
Design
7 min
Inside Italian Grandeur: Artemest Reimagines the Grand Tour in Milan
At Palazzo Donizetti, five international design studios transformed Italian craftsmanship into a contemporary journey through Venice, Naples, Rome, Palermo, and Florence.
Art
5 min
The Frick Collection Where Time Learns to Breathe
Inside New York’s Most Intimate Museum Where Art, Architecture, and Memory Become One
Culture
4 min
Gianna Jun Defines Elegance at NYAFF’s 25th Anniversary Gala
At the 25th Anniversary Opening Gala of the New York Asian Film Festival, actress Gianna Jun transformed the red carpet with understated elegance, reminding New York that true presence never demands attention. It naturally commands it.
Travel
4 min
Warren Street Hotel Brings Kit Kemp’s World of Color to Tribeca
Inside Firmdale Hotels’ Art Filled Downtown Retreat Designed with the Spirit of New York
Culture
4 min
Gianna Jun & Yeon Sang-Ho Open NYAFF
The 25th New York Asian Film Festival opened with the North American premiere of Colony, the latest film by director Yeon Sang-ho.
Travel
8 min
David Pacey, Executive Vice President and Chief of In-flight Service and Lounges at Korean Air
How Three Decades of Hospitality Leadership Are Shaping the Future of Premium Air Travel
Art
10 min
When Bowls Begin to Speak
How C?leste Boursier-Mougenot’s clinamen transforms water, porcelain, and silence into one of New York’s most contemplative artistic experiences.
Art
5 min
Sojung Jun Reimagines the Nine Tailed Fox at Asia Society
In I Do Nine-Tailed Fox, folklore, displacement, film, and experimental sound converge in an operatic meditation on survival and memory.
Sports
7 min
Inside the 2026 USRowing Youth National Championships
Inside the 2026 USRowing Youth National Championships
Sports
4 min
The Stadium as a Machine
How Red Bull Arena Turns Architecture into Competitive Advantage
People
1 min
Building New York?s Next Global Gateway
Building New York?s Next Global Gateway
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