Korean recipes: Yakgwa deep-fried honey cookies
Yakgwa are cookies that can also be medicine, and the snack has one of the longest histories in Korean cuisine.
The snack originated during the...
Korean recipes: Tteokguk rice cake soup
Seollal Lunar New Year’s Day is back. This holiday has more meanings than other days, as we are now one year older. On Seollal,...
Explore Joseon royal palace design
On Feb. 2, the National Palace Museum of Korea reopens its Joseon Palaces and Royal Court Life exhibition halls and reveals drawings and plans...
Online comic strips bring Korea, France closer
The 43rd Angouleme International Comics Festival showcases some Korean online comic strips from Jan. 28 to 31.
About 400 kilometers southwest of Paris, Angouleme has...
Joseon royal procedural records now available online
Many parts of the Uigwe, a collection of royal protocol guidelines covering a wide range of royal occasions and which were kept at the...
Korean recipes: Goldongban bibimbap
Bibimbap is one of the most popular Korean dishes enjoyed by non-Koreans. Depending on what ingredients you add and how you mix it, you...
Korean recipes: spicy stir-fried small octopus, nakji bokkeum
What would you feed a weak, sick bull to make it immediately stand up?
The answer is small octopuses, or nakji (낙지).
Jeong Yak-jeon (정약전, 丁若銓)...
Make yourself some handmade chocolate
Both sides of the Cheonggyecheon Stream are home to many of Seoul’s markets and shopping areas.
Make yourself some handmade chocolate.
A few years ago, I...
Korean seafood dishes on display in Madrid
Visitors line up to sample some of the fermented vegetables on offer at the Korean booth at last year's Madrid Fusion, a Spanish food...
Traditional drinks keep you healthy in winter
In winter, people can easily catch a cold or other illness because cold weather makes our immune systems a bit weaker. To stay healthy...
Hansan Sogokju,’ The sit-down drink’
Hansan Sogokju is one of the better-known brands of local alcohol that are well-loved across Chungcheongnam-do Province.
With just one sip, its unique taste and...
From a song of the Korean people, to a song of the world: ‘Arirang’
Arirang, an iconic folk song of Korea, has been newly made as a medley of its versions. Played alongside a Western classical music orchestra,...
Yi Kwang-Su, Korea & “The Soil”
The battle for the soul of Asia continues today, just as it raged in 1932 and 1933 when Yi Kwang-Su published his epic "The...
Korean recipes: Sweet rice with nuts and jujubes, yaksik
Yaksik cuisine is usually eaten on the Jeongwol Daeboreum, the first full moon of the Lunar New Year. It's made with healthy ingredients, such...
Explore Korea’s national heritage online
The Cultural Heritage Administration reopens its digital cultural information service today. The website offers a wide range of historical records, pictures and videos related...
Exhibition celebrates Year of the Monkey
Monkeys are not indigenous to the Korean Peninsula, but as one of the 12 animals of the East Asian zodiac, the monkey can be...
Eat your way across Korea — kimchi soup
Korean cuisine just wouldn't be the same without its vast and various varieties of kimchi. There are 187 officially-recognized varieties of kimchi listed at...
Two ‘Nutcrackers’ enrich year-end celebrations
“The Nutcracker” is on its way to rekindle the innocence of childhood, as Christmas draws near.
The classical ballet is based on the story of...
Korean recipes: patjuk red bean porridge
A staffer at the Korean Folk Village in Yongin-si City, Gyeoggi-do Province, offers patjuk, or rice and red bean porridge, to visitors to mark...
Stroll through a world of orchids
A Darwin's orchid is on exhibit at the National Institute of Ecology. The flower is associated with the naturalist Charles Darwin who correctly predicted...
