With some 900 book-related businesses, Paju Book City, northwest of Seoul, is an intentional and euphoric celebration of books and the bookmaking process.

One minister said that school books should teach "the proud history of South Korea, which has achieved both democratisation and industrialisation in the shortest time in world history".

Ed Park's debut, 'Personal Days,' satirized office culture. His new novel of alternate history, 'Same Bed Different Dreams,' is a wildly more ambitious project.

Victor Cha and Ramon Pacheco Pardo draw on decades of research to explore the history of modern Korea to shed light on the evolving identities of the two Koreas, explaining the sharp differences ...

In his 1961 book, What Is History?, the British historian E. H. Carr sought to answer that very question. Carr argued that history is a perpetual dialogue between the past and the present, that it ...

Cha and Pacheco Pardo offer a sure-footed guide to North and South Korea’s divergent paths and their fraught fraternal relationship.

[Visual History of Korea] Jeungdoga book may be oldest movable metal type print book By Kim Hoo-ran Published : Oct. 29, 2022 - 16:01 ...

Renowned photojournalist Hyungwon Kang, emphasizing the allure of storytelling in history, applies this principle to his ongoing project "Visual History of Korea." His book, sharing the same title, ...

But in South Korea, a country where Truman decided to commit U.S. and U.N. troops soon after the outbreak of the 1950-53 Korean War, Daniel hopes his grandfather is remembered as "a guy that took ...

“The Book of Fish,” a black-and-white historical film by Lee Joon-ik (2021), which was released on Netflix last May, reappeared on the streaming platform’s top 10 list early last month. Netflix Korea ...