In Korean culture, bathing has been recognised as a practice that washes away not just the body’s impurities but also ...

PHOTO: JON FEINGERSH / GETTY IMAGES. “Are you okay?” the practitioner asked me. That’s not the typical question you get after a spa massage. I nodded and felt myself redden as I squeaked, “Yes.” I ...

When you think of a spa, you think facials, massages, wraps. Not a big bowl of noodles. But in South Korea — where the 2018 Winter Olympics kick off Feb. 9 in Pyeongchang — spas are popular places for ...

No big deal. It’s 9:45 on a Tuesday night and I’m just laying, completely naked, on a massage table in a line of other massage tables also covered by other completely nude women, none of whom I know.