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Kylie Jenner helped this gadget go viral. Now the firm’s founder is a billionaire

Endorsements from top-tier influencers reflect the growing mainstream appeal of K-beauty.

  • Yoojung Lee

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Carissa Smith was adopted from South Korea as a baby and has embarked on a search for her birth parents.

Carissa used to look at the moon and wonder if her mother could see it too - she never found out

Carissa Smith finally made the journey to Seoul last year, seeking answers about who she was. But her hopes were dashed by a woman holding a manila folder, and hiding words with a ruler.

  • Lisa Visentin
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Lifting the mask: Squid Game’s villain Front Man reveals (almost) all

For three seasons, Lee Byung-hun has been the game’s cold-hearted controller. Here, he offers his thoughts on what was really going on behind the mask.

  • Karl Quinn
K-pop’s biggest group are set to reunite after nearly two years apart.

Fans feared K-pop’s biggest stars were gone forever. Now, they’re set to return

K-pop titans BTS split in 2022 to pursue solo projects and complete military service but this week, their fans got some good news.

  • Nell Geraets
Afghans wrestlers fight during a match at the Chaman-e-Hozari Park in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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World in pictures this week, June 5, 2025

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by The Age picture editors.

Australian-Korean adoptees have been calling for a national inquiry into what authorities knew about the ethical and legal issues plaguing the Eastern Social Welfare Society, which facilitated thousands of adoptions to Australia.

Did Australia know? South Korean adoptees demand answers over global scandal

Labor has promised, if re-elected, to investigate concerns about the program that facilitated thousands of adoptions to Australia.

  • Lisa Visentin
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Rows of babies waiting for overseas adoption in 1984 at the Angel Babies’ Home orphanage.

Josie was handed two Korean toddlers at the airport. They sobbed ‘mummy’ the whole way to Australia

The former social worker says she is horrified by what she was asked to do in 1984 and is calling for an inquiry into Australia’s overseas adoption practices.

  • Lisa Visentin
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This is one of America’s most shocking economic defeats in 40 years

A photo taken on the weekend shows just how much the world is uniting to fight back against Donald Trump’s damaging trade war.

  • Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
For Chae Ryan, 33, the search for his Korean identity has been a harrowing journey. The South Korean agency that facilitated his adoption to Australia in 1991 is now at the centre of damning inquiry into widespread fraud and malpractice in the country’s adoption system.

‘I believed I was an orphan’: Australians caught up in global adoption scandal

For Chae Ryan, the search for his identity has been a harrowing experience. He’s not the only one.

  • Lisa Visentin
Firefighters extinguish a fire at a factory building that has been engulfed in a wildfire in Uiseong, South Korea on Saturday.

Dozens dead and injured as bushfires ravage South Korea

Tens of thousands of people have been told to evacuate and a helicopter pilot has been killed trying to extinguish some of the worst fires the nation has ever experienced.

  • Kim Tong-Hyung

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