South Korea’s Bangucheon carvings likely to be named World Heritage Site
The petroglyphs “manifest the artistry of the people that had lived in the Korean Peninsula,” a work of creative art that focused on rare topics such as whale hunting, the KHS…
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‘Jang-making’ likely to get UNESCO recognition
The traditional Korean ways of making fermented pastes and sauces, or “jang,” are all but certain to make UNESCO’s list of intangible cultural heritage. The Evaluation Body…
Anti-LGBTQ+ rally in Seoul exposes divide
The rallies—attended by people the police and organisers say numbered between 232,500 and 1.1 million—called for a united front in rejecting same-sex marriage and…
Korean artists shine in inaugural Gucci Cultural Month
“Dual Narratives: Honoring the Visionaries,” running for eight days through Tuesday, October 29, explores fresh angles to look at film director Park Chan-wook, pianist Cho…
Korean language teaching expert says demand has outstripped supply
The Korean language and its writing system Hangeul are not easy to learn, let alone teach. Two non-Korean scholars have shown that that notion might be changing -- and the Korean…
Seoul Fashion Week to show world’s first stretchable display
The designer behind this project is Lee Chung-chung, womenswear designer and founder of LIE, whose runway will be the finale of the five-day fashion week starting Sept. 3 at…
Buddhism meets new audience through AI
An AI chatbot that reads Buddhist scriptures and gives answers to whatever questions users enter is the latest effort by the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism to reach the…
South Korean illustrator’s reinterpretations of the hanbok prize originality
Wooh Na-young's Koreanization of “Alice in Wonderland” at a solo exhibition in June 2013 proved to be a big hit. The image of Alice in a hanbok was a sensation not only to…
Online platform set up for easier access to old maps of East Asia
The maps date as far back as 1592 and users can see how various maps published later captured the same regions, by entering the names of places on the East Asian Old Map…
Application filed to have ‘hanji’ preserved by UNESCO
According to the Cultural Heritage Administration, hanji, or traditional Korean mulberry paper, was used for a thousand years, with “meticulous handcrafting skills” of hanji…