For more than three decades, tattooing in South Korea lived in the shadows. The practice thrived, with an estimated 350,000 tattoo artists across the country, but the law treated it as criminal unless carried out by a medical professional. The contradiction was absurd: while eyebrow tattoos were quietly common among parliamentarians, a young artist risked jail for inking a client’s wrist. That era has now ended. The National Assembly has passed the Tattooist Act, allowing […]