Right now

What's trending in Korea, right now

Every live feed on this site, each with its own page: what Korea is watching, buying and doing today. Nothing here is written from abroad - it is checked in Seoul every morning, and a feed that fails comes down instead of showing yesterday's number as if it were today's.

• K-beauty right now: the most-watched videos in Korea

  Korean-language beauty uploads from the past 7 days, ordered by view count. Shorts are left out. The search terms are ours; the view counts

  Updated Oct 9, 16:18 KST
• K-pop right now: the music videos Korea is actually watching

  The songs Korea has on repeat and the most-watched K-pop videos, both from YouTube, checked every morning in Seoul.

  Updated Oct 9, 16:18 KST
• Seoul right now: crowds, festivals and what closes

  Live crowd levels at Seoul’s main districts, plus this week’s festivals and holidays.

  Updated Oct 9, 16:18 KST