Frédéric Malle has put PEACEMINUSONE's daisy on a perfume from 2000 and charged the usual price. We smelled it. It is very good.
Two years after sharing a bill under the same railway arches, the Korean singer brought his new goth record to London on his own, eight days after its release, with one guitarist and a room ready to follow him.
Shanghai Fashion Week closes tomorrow with a Douyin runway of 45 emerging designers. The third Asian fashion week this season to lean on a platform.
LATESTMUSIC
Two years after sharing a bill under the same railway arches, the Korean singer brought his new goth record to London on his own, eight days after its release, with one guitarist and a room ready to follow him.
From a trainee's solo song to a rookie award and Wembley: the four members of LNGSHOT, their year so far and the mentor who built Jay Park's first idol group.Mad Tsai tells Zutter why he said no to labels after his first viral hit, paid off his student debt with streaming and finally signed with an indie label.
BIGBANG brought their 20th anniversary tour to Tottenham Hotspur Stadium: Daesung math, Taeyang the gentleman and a whole stadium singing Haru Haru.
BIGBANG's first Paris concert, reviewed from the floor: thirty-one songs, an anniversary lightstick nobody had yet, and a crowd that travelled in from across Europe to hold the wrong ones.
STYLE
Shanghai Fashion Week closes tomorrow with a Douyin runway of 45 emerging designers. The third Asian fashion week this season to lean on a platform.
Jungkook wore GOD SELECTION XXX at BTS's Lima soundcheck. A guide to the Harajuku label, its Fujiwara connection and what it costs.
OSOI's first country-specific collection went on sale in Japan on Wednesday at ¥162,800, sold through United Arrows, which operates the brand there.
Human Made's biggest store opened in Harajuku on Saturday with a mobile ordering system designed to keep customers from queuing outside.
Brand Finance says Japanese apparel brand value rose 29% to $13bn. Uniqlo and Asics are the entire figure, and Asics is a new entrant.
BEAUTY
Frédéric Malle has put PEACEMINUSONE's daisy on a perfume from 2000 and charged the usual price. We smelled it. It is very good.
Japanese K-pop fans report Korean cosmetics brands. Fans of Japanese idols report Japanese ones. Fandom is working as a distribution system.
Goodai Global, the ₩1.47tn group behind Beauty of Joseon and TIRTIR, is building PEACEMINUSONE BEAUTY with G-Dragon's label for a 2027 launch.
PharmaResearch's cosmetics exports rose 91.8% in the first half. Its injectable reached Britain this year — and it isn't the same molecule as the serums.
THG says Korean brands brought 64,000 new customers to Lookfantastic and Cult Beauty in the first half. Its total active customer base didn't move.
FOOD
Karla Knowles opens PAM in Farringdon on 3 November after seven and a half years at Kiln, with a second Thai restaurant in Notting Hill to follow.
Korean food exports to Europe rose 24.5% in eight months, faster than to the US or China. Britain sits inside that figure, and no UK line is published.
Endo Kazutoshi has reopened in a Chelsea townhouse with a ten-seat omakase counter, a year after a fire closed Endo at the Rotunda. It is booked out.
A. Wong reopens on 10 October with a rebuilt kitchen diners can watch, as Andrew Wong prepares to open a Chinese pub in Shoreditch with Dishoom's co-founder.
Chuseok falls on Friday, and families across Korea will gather round a table of harvest food. At the centre of it is songpyeon, a half-moon rice cake steamed on pine needles.
TV&FILM
Five Korean films opened around Chuseok to avoid The Odyssey. The Assassin(s) took 40.6% of the money and the rest divided what was left.
Thailand's Academy Award submission 9 Temples to Heaven was financed across eight territories, with Apichatpong Weerasethakul among its producers.
China's National Day holiday closed on Wednesday with the year-to-date box office down 29.7%, after a Lunar New Year that fell 38.6%.
Lee Chang-dong's Possible Love won the Silver Lion at Venice on Saturday, the only prize an Asian film took from this year's competition.
Asia-Pacific overtook every region for streaming series orders in the first half of 2026, with unusually high commission counts in Taiwan and the Philippines.
BUSINESS
Overseas illegal distribution of Korean content hit a record 493.55 million recorded instances in 2025. Takedowns reached 243,374 of them.
Kakao Entertainment and Warner's Atlantic Music Group will plan K-pop acts for overseas markets from the writing stage. No terms were disclosed.
GMMTV took 51% of a new company with Studio Wabi Sabi's founder on 14 September. Two weeks later the boys' love studio closed its management arm.
A Copyright Act amendment filed on 18 September would let Korean directors, writers and performers claim payment after signing their rights away.
HYBE took 647.7bn won from concerts in the second quarter. SM, JYP and YG earned 660.4bn won between them from their entire businesses.


Two years after sharing a bill under the same railway arches, the Korean singer brought his new goth record to London on his own, eight days after its release, with one guitarist and a room ready to follow him.