When Elise Hu was NPR’s bureau chief in South Korea, she encountered appearance-based discrimination known as lookism. Her new book takes a deep dive into the fascinating K-Beauty industry there. The ...

I’ve been thinking about mentoring lately, maybe because I read how Franz Joseph Haydn influenced Mozart and Johannes Brahms befriended and mentored a young Anton Dvorák. I have no such skills or ...

Nikesha Elise Williams is on a journey to teach us "Lessons We Were Never Taught". That's the name of her one-woman show which is running through Sunday at BABS' LAB at Cork Arts District.

Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital; By Elise Hu; Dutton; 384 pp., $29.00 By the late 2010s, a little under a decade after K-Beauty emerged as a phenomenon among beauty ...