In South Korea, the tattoo industry has long been underground due to prohibitive licensing rules. With those restrictions set ...

South Korea has long banned tattooing by anyone without a medical license. That has left tattoo artists to work in the ...

Tattoos have long been stigmatised in South Korea. Starting over a thousand years ago, people’s crimes or slave status was ...

South Korea has legalised tattoo artistry by non-medical professionals for the first time in more than 30 years, following a ...

South Korean tattoo artists have inked a fine line to global success in recent years but at home they've had to operate underground, illegally, until the passage of a new law last month.

South Korea's parliament has passed a bill to legalise tattoo artists, ending a decades-long ban on tattooing by those ...

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 ...

Tattoo artists can face up to five years in prison and 50 million won ($35,740) in fines if they are caught inking people ...

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 ...