Korean kimchi is no longer just a simple side dish on the Korean table. Today, Korean kimchi is a symbol of national identity, a star of traditional Korean food, and one of the most famous fermented ...

A Hong Kong-registered oil tanker collides with a barge carrying a crane, causing the largest oil spill in Korean history in waters off South Korea's west coast. About 15,000 tons of oil from the ...

What was that Korean-American journey like? Korean culture has long been a part of the fabric of American culture. But what was that journey like? The three most significant waves all happened in ...

On the South Korean side of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), the twisted wreckage of a train sits on a set of rails that end abruptly before they can proceed northward. The wreck, what remains of a train ...

Korean history is not usually taught in schools here in the United States. We learn it in other ways: through our family and friends; through Korean school programs, often run through evangelical and ...

For decades, consumers of the US media have been fed a series of repeated lies concerning the status of northern Korea. Tales of mass starvation and brutal torture are told over and over, occasionally ...

CAMP HOVEY, South Korea - In 1950, when retired Col. Jong-hwan Lee was 17, his countrymen were fleeing Seoul and other northern cities from advancing communist forces. After spending five days in ...

In June 1950, President Harry Truman ordered a naval blockade of the Korean coast and authorized Gen. Douglas MacArthur to send U.S. ground troops into Korea. During the three-year war, history would ...

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the accepted principal dictionary of the English language, recently included dozens of Korean words in its September update. At the “crest of the Korean wave”: ...