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.

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 ...

Minister for Trade Inkyo Cheong of the Republic of Korea and European Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security Maroš Šefčovič co-chaired the 12th Korea-EU FTA Trade Committee (“Committee”) meeting ...

Darcy Paquet, an American movie critic who has lived in Korea for close to 20 years, wears many hats in the Korean film industry: critic, lecturer, author, translator, artistic director and part-time ...

The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) of the Republic of Korea (Minister Oh Yu-Kyoung) has been implementing a pilot project of providing food product information with the ‘Smart Food QR’* since ...

- Increasing market share in the quantum market to around 10% and nurturing 1,200 quantum technology companies Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) announced the "South Korea's Quantum Science 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 ...

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 ...

People going on blind or ordinary dates can now do so with government support. They can get married in public museums or parks, and pay just KRW 10,000 in rent per month for their new home after ...

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 ...

Hanbok is traditional Korean costumes with vibrant and eye-catching colors. In the past, the clothing was worn daily and the colors indicated social class, age or even the marital status of a woman.

An augmented reality (AR) image of a wyvern, a mythical dragon-like creature, on March 23 suddenly appeared on the opening day of the 2019 Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) season at Incheon's SK ...