WASHINGTON — As we celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month throughout May, we take a look at the unique and extremely innovative Korean writing system. Called Hangul, King Seojong introduced ...

Krys Lee is a writer who has traveled between borders her whole life, immigrating to the U.S. from South Korea as a young child, later becoming a foreign student in the U.K., then settling in South ...

As William Gibson famously observed, the future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed. If you want to see what a crypto-integrated society looks like, you don’t need a time machine: ...

Jang Jin-sung, a North Korean poet laureate and a employee of the country’s United Front Department, the government agency responsible for “inter-Korean espionage, policy making and diplomacy,” was ...

I wonder what's on the breeze. On Jan. 7, a group of young students were busy writing poems and other short literary works at the Sangsang Madang art center in Chuncheon. One of them soon held up her ...

“People make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change ...

ABUJA — As part of efforts to promote cultural diplomacy and deepen ties between Nigeria and the Republic of Korea, the Korean Cultural Center Nigeria (KCCN) hosted the 2025 Korean Speech and Writing ...

NEW YORK, April 30, 2011 - Asia Society kicked off a day of literary events on Saturday with Word from Asia: Contemporary Writing from Korea. The panel was moderated by Bruce Fulton, renowned ...

When working as a journalist and writing Korean news in English, one can sometimes face awkward situations. Let’s consider a ...

GOYANG, South Korea (AP) — With a single step over a weathered, cracked slab of concrete, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made history Friday by crossing over the world's most heavily armed border to ...

Syngman Rhee, the authoritarian president of South Korea throughout the 1950s, received his advanced degrees at Harvard and Princeton. But, in his youth (Rhee was born in 1875), he had a traditional ...

North Korea is reckoned as one of the most secretive and repressive countries on earth. Its society still remains shrouded in mystery even though fascination surrounding it remains unabated. Yet, ...