The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) of the Republic of Korea (Minister Oh Yu-Kyoung) has been implementing a pilot project of providing food product information with the ‘Smart Food QR’* since ...

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 ...

Described as the son of the heavens, Jumong was the founding king of Goguryeo, which eventually became the largest dynasty in Korean history. Also known as the Holy King of the East, mythological ...

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 ...

K-pop is the most cited reason for visiting Korea by social and online media users from the top 20 countries that send tourists to the country. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Korea ...

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.

President Lee Jae Myung on Aug. 11 dispatched a special delegation to Indonesia. His spokesperson Kang Yu-jung on Aug. 10 in a written news briefing said the group will visit the Southeast Asian ...

March 1, 1919, was when the Korean people led a non-violent movement to demand liberation from Japanese colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula and announce to the world the nation's desire for ...

Minister for Trade Inkyo Cheong of the Republic of Korea and European Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security Maroš Šefčovič co-chaired the 12th Korea-EU FTA Trade Committee (“Committee”) meeting ...

Among the dozens of martial arts in Korea, sunmudo (seonmudo) has been practiced at Buddhist temples in Korea. The name literally means "meditative martial art" and combines spiritual elements such as ...

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 ...