Korean Newtro: Where Youth Meets Tradition - Korean Heritage combined with Modern Korean Culture

A Vibrant Journey Where Centuries-old Traditions Meet the Creativity of Today’s Youth Twenty-first century South Korea is a land of trends, but in recent years, one phenomenon in Korean popular culture has shown unusual staying power: newtro, which draws from the traditions and fashions of bygone eras and combines them in fresh and unexpected ways. Korean Newtro: Where Youth Meets Tradition explores the new contexts in which the technologies, aesthetics, sounds, and flavors of Korea’s past are being enjoyed once again—by not just Koreans who remember them from the first time around, but also young members of the country’s “MZ generation” as well as the increasingly many foreigners eager to experience Korean culture more deeply than they’ve done before. Read more