It is an immensely positive sign for the nation that a growing number of foreigners are undertaking the study of the Korean language and Hangeul, the Korean alphabet in the wake of “Hallyu” ― the ...

As stage-managed and air-brushed as meetings between world leaders have become, the public rarely sees the actual script. So President Bush watched in amusement on Thursday as an aide to South Korean ...

Writers and linguists from 15 countries got together in Gyeongju, Gyeongsangbuk-do Province (North Gyeongsang Province), the historic capital of Silla Kingdom (57 B.C. to A.D. 935), broadening their ...

More than half of South Koreans think that not knowing Hanja (Chinese characters) has made life uncomfortable, according to a recent Korean Gallup Opinion Poll on Hangul and Hanja. The poll, to ...

When it comes to international provocations, North Korea's experienced extortionists have an outline that guides their bellicose dramas. The starving Stalinists' latest armed tantrum fits the general ...