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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Martin Robinson

K-Culture hunting: Inside the new Korea exhibition at the British Museum

Painting of the Sun, Moon, and Five Peaks on six-panel folding screen -

“Anti-ageing serum, this is good… collagen face masks… take these… just push your way through… now the queue — good luck!”

The Standard is being helped through K-Beauty emporium Olive Young, which despite it being nearly midnight, is heaving to such a degree that this lanky Englishman is in danger of being trampled underfoot by young Koreans. Beauty never sleeps, and neither does Seoul.

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