Hailey Bieber Shares Korean Rice Cakes and Banana Milk in Her ‘ily KR’ Photo Diary

The model’s latest Korea snapshots mix sweet treats, a playful face-mask selfie and restaurant moments following her visit with Justin Bieber for a SKYLRK pop-up.

Hailey Bieber’s latest travel diary offers a glimpse of Korea through the smaller moments between public appearances, with chewy rice-cake desserts and banana milk earning a place alongside selfies and restaurant footage. Sharing photographs and videos on October 27, Korean time, the model summed up the collection with “ily KR,” an abbreviated message meaning “I love you, Korea.”

The post followed her recent visit with Justin Bieber for a Seoul pop-up event connected to his fashion brand, SKYLRK. While the trip brought the couple to Korea for a brand appearance, Hailey’s selection focused on what she encountered away from that setting, moving between food, playful poses and a blue face mask rather than presenting a formal account of the event.

Korean Snacks Make the Photo Diary

Among the foods featured were chapssaltteok, the chewy Korean rice-cake dessert currently enjoying renewed attention, and banana milk, a familiar presence in Korean shops. Their inclusion gave the post a distinctly local element, placing everyday treats alongside the more recognizable celebrity-travel photographs.

Chapssaltteok is made with glutinous rice, which gives it its characteristic soft, elastic texture, and is often served with a sweet filling. The dessert category includes many variations, although the supplied report does not identify the precise flavor or filling shown in Hailey’s photograph. It is the kind of food whose texture is central to its appeal, making it quite different from the crisp pastries or cakes that often fill a travel dessert diary.

Banana milk provided another recognizable Korean detail, appearing as its own subject among the images she chose to share. The pairing brought together a rice-based sweet and a flavored dairy drink, giving followers a small taste of the snacks that accompanied the visit without requiring an elaborate restaurant itinerary.

A Blue Face Mask and a Playful Restaurant Moment

Food was only one part of the collection, which also included a selfie of Hailey wearing a blue face mask and footage of her dancing. The mix gave the post an informal rhythm, moving between beauty routines, movement and dining rather than organizing the trip solely around its official purpose.

In a restaurant photograph, she posed with a Korean beer bottle held above her head, adding another lighthearted moment to the selection. Alongside the mask selfie and snack photographs, the image helped establish the post as a personal collection of things she wanted to remember and share.

The brief caption left the pictures to supply most of the detail, with “ily KR” connecting otherwise different moments from the trip. Rather than explaining every location or activity, she offered a succession of snapshots that moved from a meal to a beauty routine and then back to food.

The Seoul Visit Behind the Post

Hailey and Justin had recently traveled to Korea for a Seoul pop-up associated with SKYLRK, Justin’s fashion brand, according to Korean coverage of the visit. The trip also drew attention because Justin’s previous visit to Korea had been for his 2013 concert, placing his return approximately 13 years after that appearance.

For Hailey’s followers, however, the new post offered a view beyond the reason for the journey. A brand event may have brought the couple to Seoul, but the photographs she shared gave equal space to the less formal parts of being there, including snacks, restaurant time and moments of playfulness.

Her caption supplied the clearest statement about the experience, while the photographs filled in its everyday details. For readers discovering Korean food through the post, the rice cakes and banana milk also offer two starting points that exist well beyond a celebrity visit.

Editor’s Note: Korean banana milk has a history stretching back decades. Binggrae states that its Banana Flavored Milk launched in 1974 and that its distinctive rounded container was inspired by the Korean moon jar. Separately, the Korea Tourism Organization identifies chapssaltteok as a sweet rice cake commonly made with a red-bean filling; that description explains the traditional dessert and does not establish the filling or brand pictured in Hailey’s post.