Iran's Foreign Ministry has warned South Korea against sending troops to the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian Foreign Ministry ...

Pop, Korea’s long history reveals how a distinctive cultural identity survived, adapted, and eventually reached audiences ...

Published in 1459, Worin seokbo united two works shaped by successive generations of the Joseon royal family: King Sejong’s ...

Nine sheets of hanji, traditional Korean paper, bear seal impressions of Sejong and eight scholars associated with ...

Hangul Attack is a typing game where the objective is to destroy the Hangul characters that fall from the sky. Four modes help the user focus on consonants, vowels, consonants and vowels, and words.

I used to think that the Joseon Dynasty was an independent country. When Japanese people think of the history of the Korean Peninsula, they usually think of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's invasions of Korea, ...

Do you know the super popular Korean variety show 'Kkorie Kkorireul Muneun Geunal Iyagi' (The story of that day that bites tail to tail: commonly known as 'Kkokkomu')? It's a storytelling show that ...

This animated history video explains how Hangul became one of the most logical writing systems in the world. For centuries, Koreans used Hanja, a difficult Chinese-based system that kept reading and ...

Koreans tend to regard King Sejong and Hangul as a rare case in which the creator of a script and the year of its creation are known precisely, but a look at history shows that is not so. Around 405, ...

Most writing systems evolved gradually over centuries, making it impossible to identify who invented their letters. Nobody knows who created A, B or C, or the original forms of most scripts still used ...

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 ...