With its wooden Balinese art, Lonely Planet travel guides, and bright natural lighting, Shi Ryu Doh feels more like a spa. In Japan tattoos have long been stigmatized for their association with ...

Ms Ryu is now choosing to take on what she sees as an outdated relic of Korea's past: its tattoo laws. When she launched her campaign to legalise tattooing earlier this year, Ms Ryu once again ...

Tattoo artists, long treated as criminals for ... “In America, it’s different — they respect artists,” Mr. Ko, 41, said. Ryu Ho-jeong, a member of the National Assembly in South Korea ...

Rep. Hong Joon-pyo, former leader of the conservative opposition, has joined the motion to legalize the tattoo business. Justice Party lawmaker Ryu Ho-jeong, who showed up at the National Assembly ...

Currently, tattoos are not illegal in South Korea, but “must be done by a medical professional”, as noted by Korea JoongAng Daily. “Take the tape off of BTS,” Ryu wrote on her social media ...

South Korean society is increasingly siding with Doy and Ms Ryu. The elderly still disapprove of tattoos, considering them signs of criminality. Yet over half of South Koreans as a whole and more ...