"It wasn't a war in a foreign land." Blue-eyed young men who took up arms some 70 years ago to defend the peace and freedom of a strange land -- whose location on a map was unknown to them -- are now ...

A documentary about Jürgen Hinzpeter, the German journalist featured in the 2017 film "A Taxi Driver" (택시운전사) that brought 12 million people to the theaters last year, was released nationwide on May ...

Described as the son of the heavens, Jumong was the founding king of Goguryeo, which eventually became the largest dynasty in Korean history. Also known as the Holy King of the East, mythological ...

The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) of the Republic of Korea announced on January 1, 2025, that Korea’s annual exports for the year of 2024 amounted to an all-time high USD 683.8 ...

- All participating teams demonstrated strong capabilities and meaningful ambition, and are expected to help expand Korea’s AI ecosystem across multiple fronts - The project now moves into full-scale ...

The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries (MOF; Minister Kang Do-hyung) announced that Korea’s trade ports handled a record-breaking container volume of 31.73 million TEUs. The figure represents a 5.3% ...

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on July 2 unanimously raised Korea's status from a developing economy to a developed one, reclassifying the nation from Group A (Asian ...

The minimum hourly wage for next year has been set at KRW 10,320, up 2.9% from this year's. The Minimum Wage Council on July 10 decided this at its 12th plenary meeting at Government Complex-Sejong in ...

Following the transition from expansionary fiscal policies to a sound fiscal approach during the 2023 budget planning, the 2024 budget proposal focuses on improving the fundamentals of fiscal ...

Ask a Korean to mention a unique element of Korean culture, and the answer might be jeong, an abstract term loosely defined as someone's feelings for another person. This word often appears in Korean ...

K-pop is the most cited reason for visiting Korea by social and online media users from the top 20 countries that send tourists to the country. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Korea ...

Every country has its own superstitions, though the younger generation in Korea is far less superstitious than its predecessor. The following are 11 traditional superstitions in Korea, though their ...