EPISODE · Apr 8, 2026 · 14 MIN
What’s Trending: From South Korea’s bookstore dating craze to a Chinese teahouse gone viral for keeping celebrity leftovers
from Money Matters with Hongbin Jeong and Chua Tian Tian · host MONEY FM 89.3
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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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