President Lee Jae Myung and visiting Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on the morning of April 13 at Cheong Wa Dae in Seoul agreed to elevate bilateral relations to a "comprehensive strategic ...

Minister of Foreign Affairs Cho Hyun on April 15 hosted talks at his ministry's compound in Seoul's Jongno-gu District with Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency ...

Director Chung Ji-young, who uses film to offer sharp insights on the hidden sides of history and society, is back with his latest work "My Name," which deals with the Jeju April 3 Incident, marked by ...

May 1's official designation as a public holiday from this year means a day off for the public for the first time in 63 years. The Ministry of Employment and Labor and the Ministry of Personnel ...

The Korean Cultural Center in Hong Kong hosted the 2022 Quiz-on Korea (Hong Kong) Finals last Sunday, 12th of June. The six finalists, selected from more than a thousand competitors in the primary ...

Masks of all kinds can be found in every part of the world, but Korean masks contain their own unique shapes and functions. Korean masks are generally divided into ritual and theatrical masks; ritual ...

Across East Asia and elsewhere in the world, most families' main staple is rice, and in Korea it's joined with the triumvirate of the Korean kitchen: soy sauce, hot pepper paste and brown bean paste.

The total fertility rate, or the average number of children a woman is expected to have in her lifetime, rose for the first time in nine years in reaching 0.75. According to 2024 data on births and ...

The Bukcheong lion dance has been handed down through the generations in the region of Bukcheong in South Hamgyeong Province, in what is now North Korea. Originally, this lion dance was performed as ...

Soju, the clear traditional liquor that comes in the iconic green bottle, is widely known to soothe the sorrows of Koreans as shown in many films and TV dramas. The drink has recently received global ...

A newly enacted law on artificial intelligence (AI) has formed the basis for the national development of AI. The Ministry of Science and ICT on Dec. 26 said the National Assembly in a plenary session ...

The Seoul Metropolitan Government has launched Seoul Tour Map to make finding popular attractions in the capital easy. The digital map offers a one-stop service for checking the city's best tourist ...