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Customers browse health supplements and skin care products at Ready Young Pharmacy in Seongsu-dong, Seoul. Beauty and wellness tourism is currently one of South Korea’s fastest-growing tourism trends. Photo: The Korea Times
Asia travel

Why are tourists flocking to South Korea’s pharmacies and wellness services?

Beauty and wellness tourism is booming in South Korea, with packages mixing medical technology, beauty services and lifestyle experiences.

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Wellness

Luxury anti-inflammation retreats are booming, but do the benefits last?

Wellness

Manuka honey: New Zealand’s skincare, wellness and gut health elixir

Celebrity style

Meet the Zendaya glam squad behind her most viral red carpet looks

Besides stylist Law Roach, make-up artist Ernesto Casillas, and hairstylists Coree Moreno and Ursula Stephen shape the actress’ method dressing.

The team behind Zendaya’s best red carpet looks (from left): Coree Moreno, Ernesto Casillas and Ursula Stephen. Photos: @coree.moreno, @ernestocasillas, @ursulastephen/Instagram
Paris Fashion Week: Haute Couture

7 best beauty looks of Paris Haute Couture Week 2026, from Dior to Chanel

Schiaparelli, Robert Wun, Jean Paul Gaultier and more paired their extravagant haute couture looks with eye-catching make-up and hair that almost stole the show.

Skincare

K-beauty’s 5 best new product drops, plus Arden Cho shows us how it’s done

The latest South Korean creams, serums and fragrances from AP Beauty, Kaja Beauty, SW19, Beauty of Joseon and Sulwhasoo.

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Middle East

Middle Eastern perfumes are trending, led by Lattafa and Mona Kattan’s Kayali

From TikTok Shop to legacy houses, oud has gone mainstream – with Gucci, Maison Francis Kurkdjian and Tom Ford all launching dedicated collections.

Mona Kattan helped drive the rise of Middle Eastern fragrances with Dubai-based Kayali, which became Sephora’s No 1 fragrance brand in the first half of 2025. Photo: Handout
Hong Kong courts

Friend sues ex-plastic surgeon for HK$12m over loans tied to manslaughter case

Franklin Li received money through 14 bank transfers between May 2023 and August 2024 to fund legal defence team, retiree says in writ.

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Style Edit

Style Edit: Henry Jacques’ Les Toupies is fragrance as sculpture

Henry Jacques’ Les Toupies collection sees perfumes as conversations, and the crystal flacons housing them as objects to be owned – and held – for life.

Skincare

The science of skincare, according to 111Skin’s co-founder – interview

Eva Alexandridis’ husband, Yannis, is a plastic surgeon who works at their clinic on London’s famous Harley Street – which also provides inspiration for new products.

Eva Alexandridis, co-founder of 111Skin. Photo: Handout
Skincare

4 beauty travel kits for your summer holiday

Ensure you’re groomed to perfection on your next trip – these suitcase-friendly portable sets are just right for effortless packing.

Stay perfectly groomed while on your trip with a travel set like this one from Le Labo containing all the essentials for looking good. Photo: Handout
Skincare

Is your face fit for the gym? How to do your make-up for a workout

Once considered a cosmetics-free zone, the workout session is now turning the other cheek – and it’s tinted, with Rhode and Charlotte Tilbury offering gym-friendly options.

Icons and Influencers

Who is Adrienne Gray, Fox News pundit-turned-Maga make-up artist?

Once a panellist on Fox speaking about issues such as the trad wife trend, she is now the glam girl for figures like Lara Trump and Karoline Leavitt Riccio.

Icons and Influencers

Style according to … Marie-Louise Sciò, CEO of Pellicano Hotels Group

The woman behind some of Italy’s most glamorous hotels reveals what to do in Rome, her love of Katharine Hepburn, and her dream to ride horses in Mongolia.

Marie-Louise Sciò at Hotel Il Pellicano. Photo: Stephen Ringer
Fame and celebrity

Who is England defender John Stones’ wife, Olivia Naylor?

The pair met in 2019, wed in Ibiza in 2025, and have 3 kids in their blended family – Naylor also owns a children’s clothing brand called Moosh.

England footballer John Stones and his wife Olivia Naylor in May. Photo: @oliviajstones/Instagram
Skincare

Pimple patches: hide them or show them off?

The skincare solution is no longer designed to blend in: now there are colourful and playful options galore, with Bella Hadid, Florence Pugh and Anne Hathaway among their fans.

China consumption

China’s e-commerce platforms help unlock global markets for South Korean brands

China’s cross-border platforms, which sell to millions of shoppers, are acting as a low-cost route to overseas customers in several regions.

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Skincare

Is colostrum the new collagen – or just yet another wellness trend?

From Kourtney Kardashian’s Lemme to Jennifer Aniston-approved Armra, colostrum is everywhere – but is the ‘new collagen’ worth the hype?

According to their socials, Armra Colostrum is part of Jennifer Aniston and Dua Lipa’s morning routines. Photo: Handout
Wellness

4 luxe moisturising treatments for your nails and cuticles

Luxurious nail care to maintain your perfect manicure, from Dior, Hermès, L’Occitane and Brion.

Luxury brands

5 summer beauty highlights from Zendaya, Chanel, Dior and more

From anti-ageing face balm to La Mer’s Rejuvenating Eye Cream, and from Dior’s country estate in the South of France to a red carpet in New York.

Icons and Influencers

‘Spray 100 times’: inside TikTok’s wild new world of men’s fragrance

From OverSpray Jay’s 100-spritz rule to the rise of dupes, a new generation of obsessive male shoppers is reshaping a multibillion-dollar industry.

TikTok has been experiencing a far faster growth in male fragrance influencers compared with female ones. Photo: May Tse
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

How an HKU-developed eczema product could help fight superbug threat

Scientists develop plant-based moisturiser that ‘turns lions into sheep’, taming bacteria causing eczema itch and reducing antibiotic reliance.

HKU Professor Richard Kao says that if superbugs become dominant, humanity will return to a “pre-antibiotic” era in which standard treatments for infections are useless. Photo: Karma Lo
Wellness

Want glowing skin on a budget? Experts share their top products and routines

A trio of skincare experts reveal their affordable, science-backed routines that include peptides, vitamin C, retinoids and SPF.

Skincare

What caffeine in skincare really does for dark circles and puffiness

The stimulant penetrates quickly, narrows blood vessels and eases swelling – but results depend on what’s behind your tired-looking eyes.

South Korea

Video | South Korea is world’s second-largest cosmetics giant

K-beauty exports hit US$11.4 billion in 2025, overtaking the US to rank second only to France.

TO GO WITH STORY “FINANCE-ECONOMY-SKOREA-LIFESTYLE” by Park Chan-Kyong A South Korean woman checks a lipstick at a cosmetic store in Seoul on on November 21, 2008. Retailers are struggling to shift electronics items, clothes and household goods as the economy weakens, but some items are traditionally recession-proof. AFP PHOTO/KIM JAE-HWAN (Photo by KIM JAE-HWAN / AFP)
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Cartier

Cartier’s first perfumer Mathilde Laurent on her olfactory journey

Laurent built haute parfumerie range Les Heures de Parfum as well as La Panthère range, named for the maison’s famous big cat muse.

Mathilde Laurent, perfumer and creative director at Cartier. Photo: Handout
Fragrances

Why your perfume smells different depending on the season

Here’s how to make your fragrance wardrobe work for you through the seasons, from citrus top notes that vanish in the summer heat to base notes that bloom in the cold.

Skincare

Beauty sleep? The skincare products migrating from bathroom to bedroom

K-beauty did it a long time ago, but now bedside beauty is rising alongside ‘sleepmaxxing’, from Laneige’s Lip Sleeping Mask to silk and self-heating eye masks.

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