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Amazon Prime Day: Medicube out-searched the iPad, K-beauty sets records
At Amazon Prime Day (June 23–26), K-beauty set new records again. Highlights APR's Medicube was No. 1 in overall Amazon US search terms, ahead of iPad, Lego and AirPods. Its Zero Pore Pad topped beauty for a second strai
0 0TikTok Shop beauty neared $1B a quarter, yet half of shops sold nothing
US TikTok Shop beauty sales are booming, but an analysis shows the winners are very few. The numbers Q2 2026 TikTok Shop beauty GMV: $980M, up 82% year on year The top 5 brands took more than half of tracked sales Medicu
0 0TikTok’s K-beauty formula: bring creators in at the idea stage
TikTok's global product marketing lead explained to Korean press why K-beauty works so well on the platform. Examples from TikTok Shop US Medicube (APR): No. 1 with $16.77M in sales over 30 days Dr. Melaxin (Brand501): N
0 0Qoo10 Mega Wari: great deals, or just a growing stash of sets and freebies?
When Qoo10 Japan's "Mega Wari" sale opened on 28 August at 5 pm, a "What are you buying?" thread went up on Girls Channel, a large Japanese women's forum. It passed 200 comments, mixing wish lists with the question of wh
0 0How far do you trust beauty YouTubers' recommendations?
A post titled "Stop watching cosmetics YouTubers" went up on DC Inside's perfume and cosmetics gallery. Dermatologist YouTubers are better, it argued, because cosmetics YouTubers are ultimately in it to launch their own
0 0Ewha Womans University Shopping Street: what's left, and how to walk it
The shopping street outside Ewha Womans University grew up around one of Seoul's best-known women's universities, and for decades it's been where students — and, increasingly, visitors — go for cheap, trend-driven clothe
0 0Keratosis pilaris: tried almost everything, still bumpy — what actually helps?
On Mumsnet's Style & Beauty board, a poster who has had keratosis pilaris (the rough, red 'chicken skin' bumps) on her arms and legs all her life said she was fed up. She listed what she had already been through: urea cr
0 1Olive Young Hongdae Town: what's on each floor and what you can actually try
Olive Young Hongdae Town opened on April 26, 2024 at the entrance to Hongdae's "Walking Street," built as an experience-first store rather than a plain shelf-and-checkout shop. At three floors and roughly 991 square mete
0 0K-Beauty Places Born as Complex Cultural Spaces
Cosmetics brand stores are evolving. They are being reborn from places that simply ‘sold’ cosmetics into spaces that offer consumers more than that and, further, embody brand values in a sensory way. Along with modern in
0 0Are Korean creams still worth it in Thailand's heat and humidity?
On Pantip, Thailand's biggest forum, someone in their 40s asked whether Korean creams are still popular in Thailand and which ones to try for wrinkles. They remembered hearing years ago that Korean creams were good and w
0 1More Beautiful Through Hands-On Experiences! Beauty Flagship Stores from K-Beauty Brands
In Korea, there is an old saying that seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Experiencing things firsthand is important in everything. In particular, beauty products require a testing stag
0 0AMOREPACIFIC / K-Beauty Makeup Class
(SEOUL HALLYU ACTIVITIES PROGRAM) (What kind of Hallyu fan are you?) (K-POP DANCE / K-FOOD / K-KIMCHI / K-BEAUTY) (K-ENT / K-COCKTAIL / K-POP TV SHOW / K-CRAFTS) (SEOUL HALLYU ACTIVITIES PROGRAM X Amore Pacific) Today's
0 0Namsan Seoul Tower, Saja Boys’ Soul Spot
The story opens by recalling Saja Boys’ “Your Idol” stage and noting why Namsan Seoul Tower is viewed as the inspiration for the scene’s climactic moment. As the final sequence builds toward the climax of K-Pop Demon Hun
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