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Erika Na
Erika Na
Hong Kong
Culture Reporter
Erika Na joined the Post in 2021. Originally from South Korea, she studied international affairs with a focus on Asia in the US, followed by studying law and journalism in Hong Kong. Before joining SCMP, she worked as a Hong Kong foreign correspondent for Arirang Radio where she regularly updated news from the city and also as an intern at NBC News covering stories from Asia.

K-pop veteran Kyuhyun of idol group Super Junior looks back on his 18-year-long career and shares how his relationship with fans has changed – and why that is a good thing.

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Kino, who spent seven years in K-pop group Pentagon until it disbanded last year, talks about his solo career, new album, and how the intense and competitive K-pop training regimen benefited him.

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Why do Chinese fisherfolk celebrate Tin Hau in an annual festival ? Once upon a time there was a girl called Lin Mo, who became a deity after she learned how to predict the future and saved people from the sea.

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While many people know of Holi for its tradition of people throwing brightly coloured powder at each other, the Festival of Colours has two origin stories that are rooted in Hindu mythology.

With a design district flourishing in the Qatari capital, Doha, and a cultural district being built, Shaika Nasser Al-Nassr, director of the Museum of Islamic Art, looks forward to meeting peers in Hong Kong.

Alvin Leung, of Michelin-star restaurant Bo Innovation, talks about sourcing produce from rural farms in Hong Kong for his farm-to-table restaurant Cafe Bau. We visit one of the farms supplying it.

Pianist Minsoo Sohn, teacher of South Korean prodigy Yunchan Lim, is appearing in the 2024 Hong Kong Arts Festival. He talks to the Post about South Korea’s music scene and how he sees performing.

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Guests who stay at SAii Phi Phi Island Village, on Thailand’s Phi Phi Don island, can be reassured bamboo sharks and clownfish are among the species benefiting from their custom.

The focus of Art Basel Hong Kong 2024, which will feature 243 galleries, will be on young people who are ‘now taking power’ and educating older generations on how to collect art, the fair’s director says.

Whether in Nepal or Hong Kong, families in poverty sacrifice girls’ education, says Jennifer Lin, director of Ani Choying Drolma: Mission Impossible, about Nepali nun who founded a school for poor girls.

Nestled in verdant Pok Fu Lam, the University of Chicago’s Hong Kong campus tells the story of the city’s wartime defeat to the Japanese and of its buildings’ subsequent occupants: prisoners.

Performed by the National Ballet of China, The Red Detachment of Women was a visually stunning production. In Hong Kong today, however, its ideological aspect hits a little too close to home.

The recent jump in people heading from Hong Kong to Shenzhen at the weekend suggests you can enjoy a lot more for much cheaper in the mainland Chinese city. We compare a packed day in each.

Shanghai-born artist Pixy Liao’s first Hong Kong solo exhibition features photos of her asserting power over her naked or scantily clad male partner.

Richard Hambleton was a key figure in New York’s 1980s street art scene together with Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. An exhibition of his darkly humorous works is now showing in Hong Kong.

An exhibition in Hong Kong recalls the southern Chinese women, often forgotten today, who chose not to marry and instead became carers for the children of families in the city, in Singapore and elsewhere.

As Jaap van Zweden, music director of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, prepares to hand over the baton, we look at candidates to succeed him.

A cast of Mandarin-speaking Western actors will perform a Chinese stage adaptation of Hollywood movie The Shawshank Redemption. Actors and the director tell Erika Na about the production’s challenges.

Wilson Ng, former associate conductor of the Seoul Philharmonic, will bring his current orchestra, the Hankyung Arte Philharmonic, from South Korea to the Hong Kong Arts Festival in March.

The Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter is a photogenic reminder of Hong Kong’s early days, set against the backdrop of the city’s ever-changing present. Antony Dickson captures scenes from daily life there.

A new exhibition in Hong Kong explores the connection between ecology and feminism in the context of the global environmental emergency, and suggests alternative ways of living and caring.

Hong Kong Baptist University recently hosted the inaugural Art Future Awards, which it co-founded to give young artists a platform at a time when few art galleries are focused on nurturing them.

Located on the slopes of Seoul’s Namsan mountain, ‘moon village’ Haebangchon has gone from migrant shanty town to thriving multicultural district – here’s its history, what to do and where to eat.

How social-media-reliant Gen Zers and millennials’ travel planning differs to that of Gen Xers and baby boomers, and why authentic experiences are key.

From brushing up on your skiing and skateboarding skills to a mountain hike any Shenzhen local will recommend, here are three things to see and do while you are in China’s southern metropolis.

A son and father describe how Hong Kong students are still struggling with social skills after the pandemic, while an expert gives tips on how parents can help their children communicate better.

The Seoul Plaza, Grand Hyatt Seoul and Lotte World ice skating rinks all have unique features that place them among the best in South Korea’s capital – here’s what to know, from price to opening hours.