Move over dating apps, South Korea has found a new hotspot for singles: bookstores. On What’s Trending, Debbie Yong and Nadiah Koh dive into Seoul’s Kyobo Book Center, where young romantics are turning the aisles into matchmaking grounds, complete with viral videos of people holding books and ‘waiting for love’.
Then, they hop over to China, where a teahouse in Hainan learned the hard way that viral moments aren’t always glamorous. The restaurant left actual leftover food from a celebrity visit on display, sparking online horror and a lesson in fan tourism gone wrong.

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