"What is a March 1st Movement?" Years ago when one of my colleagues from England asked this question, my immediate reaction inside my head was ‘How could you not know? You live here…!’ Knowing of course, that I was being too harsh on someone who came to live only temporarily in Korea, I quickly gave the short...

Finally, news of flowers delights all as spring is heading to the Korean Peninsula after a long winter. To hail the coming of spring, maehwa, known as apricot flower, are set to be in full bloom in Gwangyang, Jeollanam-do (South Jeolla Province). Gwangyang-si (city) government is hosting the 12th annual Maehwa Festiva...

The construction of an art center dedicated to the late video artist Paik Nam-june has been completed, the GyeongGi Cultural Foundation said in late February. Paik, who died in January 2006 of natural causes at age 74, stunned the world in 1963 when he exhibited a dozen television sets randomly scattered about as their ...

The plan to restore a nine-story wooden pagoda inside the Hwangnyongsa Temple in Gyeongju, believed to be one of the earliest wooden pagodas in Korea, is progressing at full speed. Gyeongsangbuk-do (North Gyeongsang Province), where Gyeongju is located, is pressing ahead with the plan to restore the Hwangnyongsa Temple’...

Gyeonghoeru, a pavilion in the pond of the Joseon Dynasty’s palace of Gyeongbokgung in central Seoul, will be closed to the public for a year for maintenance to check on fire extinguishers and general facilities among others. The Cultural Heritage Administration said Friday (Feb. 29) that the pavilion, which was origina...

The New York Philharmonic performed in harmony with North Korean musicians in a dramatic finale to its unprecedented two-day visit to Pyongyang.The oldest U.S. orchestra and the North’s State Symphony Orchestra played Richard Wagner’s "The Mastersingers of Nuremberg" and Tchaikovsky’s "Romeo and Juliet&qu...

The New York Philharmonic’s Seoul concert is drawing great interests of classical music lovers in South Korea, after successfully performing in Pyongyang, North Korea. The U.S. orchestra arrived in Seoul Wednesday (Feb. 27) for its Seoul concert scheduled Thursday after performing with North Korea’s state symphony orche...

A video of a French man skillfully making the Korean dish bulgogi rice is attracting interest and comments from internet users. In the video clip "Yummy Yummy Bulgogi dupbob!" on YouTube, a man looking to be in his 20s shows a bowl of raw beef mixed with Korean hot pepper paste. (YouTube is a video sharing We...

Singer-cum-producer Park Jin-young said Feb. 20 (New York time) he would expand his upcoming "JYP Tour" to the level of Asian music festival. Park, who owns the Korea-based talent agency JYP Entertainment, held a press conference at the Marriott Marquis Hotel at Madison Square Garden before launching his conce...

One of the reasons that Seoul remains a relatively unvisited tourist estination despite its rapid rise to prominence over the past few decades is because most people never get to see what the city is like unless they actually come here.To overcome such an obstacle, the capital city last year launched the "Seoul Loc...