The Korea Herald officially launched the 3rd Herald Traditional Art Competition (K-ART Competition) on Tuesday, holding an ...

South Korea Hangul Day honors the invention and proclamation of the Korean alphabet, Hangul, every October 9. This national holiday celebrates King Sejong the Great’s monumental achievement, which ...

An exhibition bringing together "the aesthetics of writing" across generations is underway, ranging from the masterful calligraphy of Chusa Kim Jeong-hui to works by the lettering artist behind the ...

Recently, at the press briefing room of the Korean Buddhist History and Culture Memorial Hall in Jongno, Seoul. Upon seeing the photo initially included in the press release, one might ‘naturally’ ...

I went to the "Al-Al Calligraphy Exhibition" currently being held at Art Garden Kawasaki near Kawasaki Station in Kanagawa. It is a very rare exhibition in Japan, featuring a joint display of Arabic ...

It wasn’t a person and it wasn’t even a place. It was a language, or more precisely, the beautiful and poetic Korean alphabet known as Hangul. When I landed in South Korea, I had no idea that a series ...

After centuries of repression of Hangul, the Korean alphabet system, USC celebrated Hangul Day, bringing Korean culture to campus with calligraphy, kimbap and traditional games on Wednesday. “I want ...

Korean calligraphy, or seoye, is a centuries-old traditional art form. It consists of the artistic writing of the Korean alphabet, Hangul, and Chinese characters. More than just beautiful handwriting, ...

Approximately 10,000 characters are densely written on a folding screen that spans 5.5 meters in width. The content is "Worincheongangjigok" (1981), a Buddhist hymn composed directly by King Sejong in ...

Deep learning has revolutionised the automatic analysis of typographic and calligraphic forms by leveraging powerful neural architectures to extract subtle visual cues. Convolutional neural networks ...

Inking history: (Clockwise from top) Lee writing ‘KOREA’ with a glowing pen before an interview at Herald Square in Yongsan-gu, Seoul. — The Korea Herald As a child, Lee Sang-hyun had no interest in ...