Thousands of counterfeit Labubu dolls and accessories are pouring into Korea through overseas online shopping platforms, as ...

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The world's governments are meeting this week to hammer out a treaty to reverse the rising tide of plastics. Oil companies ...

THE world’s governments are meeting this week to hammer out a treaty to reverse the rising tide of plastics. Oil companies ...

In an era when global perceptions of China are often shaped by geopolitics, surveillance, and authoritarianism, Labubu seems to offer something different — something disarming.

Labubu is just strange enough, just expressive enough, to tap into that. Labubu isn't saving the world. But it's reminding us that globalization isn't dead -- it's just gotten a lot weirder.

That is Zimomo, the leader of The Monsters. And no, Zimomo and Labubu are not a thing. Labubu already has a boyfriend: Tycoco, a skeleton-looking vegetarian monster.

But what makes the Labubu a must-have, or any toy for that matter, is a decades-old question that toy makers have yet to figure out. Here’s a look at some of the most popular toys over the years.

A rare, first-generation Labubu figure has sold for $150,000 in Beijing at an auction held exclusively for the toys that have taken the world by storm.