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 ...

Cosmetics exports set a record high last year. The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety on Jan. 6 said such shipments in 2024 reached USD 10.2 billion. Such products surpassed USD 1 billion in exports for ...

Content exports in 2021 set a record-high of USD 12.4 billion. According to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism's study released on Jan. 4 on domestic cultural content in 2021, the sector's ...

A newly enacted law on artificial intelligence (AI) has formed the basis for the national development of AI. The Ministry of Science and ICT on Dec. 26 said the National Assembly in a plenary session ...

The launch of the K-Humanoid Alliance seeks to make the nation a global superpower in humanoid robots by 2030 through active government support. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy on April 10 ...

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.

A recent travel trend is to shun one-off visits in favor of going to the same places multiple times for visitors to build their personal experiences and memories. This method seeks to discover new ...

New measures this year will seek to help expats better adjust to life in Korea. The following are policy changes for foreign nationals who either plan to visit Korea or live there. First, a system to ...

Ssireum (traditional Korean wrestling) from the Korean Peninsula became the first joint item on the UNESCO heritage list from the two Koreas. The Cultural Heritage Administration announced on Nov. 26 ...

One of the lesser known secrets of Korea is that for the past 10 years the country has been a champion on the breakdancing scene. Breakdancing, unlike sports in the Olympic Games, is not organized in ...

Jeungpyeon is one of the rice cake varieties and is known for its bubbly texture inside, like bread. It is a round-shaped rice cake made from non-glutinous rice powder, rice wine garnished with ...

The edge of the chinaware is decorated with diamond-shaped Swarovski gemstones. Crown-shaped patterns in gold and red shine in a blue and white star burst in the center of the dishes and tea cups.