The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on Oct. 13 announced its joint hosting of the World Webtoon Festival from Oct. 19-22 at Lotte Town in Seoul's Songpa-gu District with the Korea Creative ...

The growing popularity of the Korean language has led to over 550,000 people taking this year the Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK), with the number of domestic test centers and countries offering ...

The Korean Produce Association proudly presents its Annual Korean Harvest Festival, which has established itself as the largest Korean-American cultural event in the United States, drawing a crowd of ...

The 1st Korean Consul General Cup Taekwondo Championship, hosted by the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Hong Kong and organized by the Korean Sports Association in Hong Kong, will be ...

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 ...

People going on blind or ordinary dates can now do so with government support. They can get married in public museums or parks, and pay just KRW 10,000 in rent per month for their new home after ...

The launch of the K-Humanoid Alliance seeks to make the nation a global superpower in humanoid robots by 2030 through active government support. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy on April 10 ...

The Seoul Metropolitan Government has launched Seoul Tour Map to make finding popular attractions in the capital easy. The digital map offers a one-stop service for checking the city's best tourist ...

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 ...

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 ...

Traditional Korean medicine (hanyak) dates back to ancient times. A myth says a tiger and a bear, wanting to reincarnate as humans, decided to eat garlic and absinthe, which were described as ...

The number of foreign residents in the country has reached its highest level since 2019, the year before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Korea Immigration Service (KIS) under the Ministry ...