Park Sung-hoon says of playing trans woman Hyun-ju, aka Player 120: "I had my concerns. But I was determined to make her into ...

Sino-Korean is full of homophones, so each syllable in a name could refer to many different meanings. To truly know the meaning of a name, you'd have to know which syllables are in their hanja name.

While most Korean first names come from sino-Korean, nowadays, more Koreans are giving their children (mostly girls) names that are simply Korean words, like Ha-neul, meaning "sky," or Yeo-reum ...

CNN’s former Beijing Bureau Chief, Mike Chinoy, recently discovered he was a fictionalized character in a North Korean novel “Thunderclap” – a CNN reporter called “Michael Chinoy.” ...

One character, a Korean writer working under the pen name Echo, ... Characters enter and leave, real-life historical figures show up unexpectedly, and facts are presented askew.

And so Yoon became the inspiration behind “Genius Girl” on the Korean TV show KAIST. Today, if writers were going to make a show about Yoon’s life, it’d look more like HBO’s “Silicon ...

The event hosted interactive booths, including a Korean calligraphy booth where guests could write their names on name cards using Korean characters. Guests could also visit tables to craft origami ...

Art Institute of Chicago opens its first gallery devoted solely to Korean art The space, featuring 300 works spanning 2,000 years, is dedicated to art from the Korean peninsula.