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...
On February 26th, Starbucks’s new limited edition “Cat Paw Cup” rapidly grabbed the headlines of China’s major social medias and created a huge buzz. What is so special about it: it is a double-layer glass cup with an interior shaped like a cat's paw! Indeed,...
Recently, many Chinese young people complained that the queue outside the fast fashion brands’ fitting room is becoming longer and longer. They are wondering why some girls are spending half an hour inside just to try clothes. Actually, those girls are the “fitting room bloggers”,...