Cover picture @ASPIR China’s urban and educated youth is shifting from intense 996 working culture to a “slow living” (#slowliving 880M views on RED) ideology, as the economic slowdown pushes young consumers toward meaningful, rational spending, while big-city burnout and rising mental-health anxiety drive them to...
Cover picture RED user @Shiyi TCP identified a social buzz word "HuoRenGan" on social media mainly on RED. Adopting "HuoRenGan" attitude, Chinese netizens are reclaiming digital spaces for ‘real human’ expression, seeking for sincere, and genuine connections while rejecting AI perfection and ‘too fake’ personas. What is...
Cover Picture @COEX Starfield Library Christmas inKorea may not be as widely celebrated as in western countries, but that doesn’t mean it goes unnoticed. The concept of Christmas in Korea is primarily divided into two categories: as a couple’s celebration or as a religious holiday for...
Chinese New Year represents a perfect opportunity to engage with consumers in China and deepen emotional and cultural connections. Douyin, as one of the leading domestic social media platforms with more than 766M MAU (Nov 2024), emerged as the main battleground for brands to compete...
Korean contemporary society and mass media have consistently promoted dieting and weight loss as a prevailing trend, framing extreme thinness as the ultimate beauty ideal. This standard requires Korean women to have fair and translucent skin, a youthful and cute appearance, and an extremely thin,...
China's DeepSeek Changes AI for the Future Recently, DeepSeek, the Chinese emerging AI company, has attracted widespread attention worldwide. Picture @DEEPSEEK On January 20, DeepSeek launched the R1 model, which achieved similar performance to Open AI’s GPT-o1 with a tenth of its cost. A week later, it quickly...