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The 2026-W31 issue.
Every story we published from the 2026-W31 snapshot, in one place. 4 stories so far — more open through the week. The raw data is in the 2026-W31 archive →
The Shelf2026-07-29
Star ratings don't sort Korea's chart. Everything that charts is already 4.5+.
A high star rating is the price of entry to Korea's best-seller chart, not the thing that wins it. Of the 98 rated products in Olive Young Korea's top 100 for 2026-W31, 96 score 4.5 or higher — and th
Journal2026-07-28
Why we started kbeautytmi
A founding note. Two questions kept coming back — from Americans about Korea, and from Koreans about America — and nobody was keeping the receipts. So we started.
The Shelf2026-07-28
77 of Korea's 100 best-sellers are sold in a pack, not alone.
Korea's best-seller chart is a bundling chart. Of the 100 products on Olive Young Korea's top-100 list for 2026-W31, 77 are sold as sets, multipacks or plus-offers — only 23 are a plain single item at
The Shelf2026-07-27
One brand holds 8 of Korea's 100 best-sellers. Most brands hold one.
Korea's best-seller chart is concentrated and long-tailed at the same time. In the 2026-W31 top 100 at Olive Young Korea, one brand — MEDIHEAL — holds 8 slots including the #1 spot, and the ten bigges