To commemorate the 80th anniversary of Korea’s liberation this year, the Korea Heritage Service announced Thursday that it ...

It is partly down to a 1993 government policy specifically designed to enhance South Korea’s global position by exporting cultural products. The idea was to increase the country’s "soft power ...

Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was arrested on Wednesday after investigators and police descended on his residence over his short-lived declaration of martial law last month.

South Korea’s history helps explain its culture. In less than 100 years, the East Asian nation broke free from Japanese occupation, survived conflict with North Korea, and transformed its ...

The uneasy truce between nuclear-armed North Korea and US-allied South Korea remains one of the most vexing security concerns ...

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According to Kim, South Korea’s leisure culture is marked by a yearning for ... referencing the neo-Confucian dynasty that shaped Korean history from the 14th to the late-19th century.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s attempted martial law declaration sparked a wave of collective resistance from ...

When South Korea's president, Yoon Suk Yeol, attempted to institute martial law in early December, the public responded with ...

When the Nobel committee recognized Han Kang in October for her body of work exploring “the fragility of human life,” it ...

(Bloomberg) -- President Yoon Suk Yeol’s shock declaration of martial law revved up South Koreans from 0 to 100. Within hours of Yoon’s late night announcement on Dec. 3, protesters massed on ...

South Korean history is stained with the blood of students ... memorials, anniversaries and cultural works — films, literature and music — keep these scars fresh. When Yoon deployed soldiers ...