GOYANG, South Korea (AP) — As a popular tattoo artist in South Korea, Song Jaemin is fully booked weeks in advance and highly respected by his clients, some of whom come from abroad to see him. But ...

South Korea has passed landmark legislation to legalise tattooing by non-medical professionals, ending more than 30 years of prohibition that had forced thousands of artists to work in the shadows.

For the past 33 years, tattooing in South Korea by anyone other than a medical professional was punishable by law. This was established by a 1992 Supreme Court ruling, which stated that only medical ...

SEOUL, South Korea — Tattoo artists in South Korea will no longer need to worry about being punished for doing their jobs, as the country’s parliament on Thursday approved a landmark bill to end a ...

STORY: The Constitutional Court in Seoul, South Korea, upheld a ban on tattooing on Thursday (March 31) - leading tattoo artists to deride the decision, calling it backward and lacking cultural ...

GOYANG, South Korea — As a popular tattoo artist in South Korea, Song Jaemin is fully booked weeks in advance and highly respected by his clients, some of whom come from abroad to see him. But each ...

We're surrounded these days by the products of Korea, K-Pop on playlists, demon hunters on movie screens, even Korean barbecue on dinner plates. NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports on another cultural export ...