The six-century old Wongaksa Pagoda lay in ruins until Westerners in Seoul began to take an interest in it. One of the most interesting but least known historic sites in Seoul is Tapgol Park (탑골공원), also known as Pagoda Park.
Two days after the Korean War began, a disastrous decision to blow up the Han River Bridge resulted in the loss of hundreds of lives.
The children of Joseon period Korea may not have had a holiday dedicated to them, but they still had to shoulder heavy domestic and scholastic responsibilities like their counterparts today.
Ice covering the Han River provided winter recreation and summer refrigeration for Joseon Korea. Words by Robert Neff Prior to...
Words BY Robert Neff A hundred years ago, many Koreans spent their New Year appeasing evil spirits and throwing...
If you really want to learn about early Korean-Western relations, you have got to start by looking at Nagasaki, Japan. Nagasaki was opened for trade with the West in 1859. The foreign settlements that subsequently were established in that city served springboards for the modernization of Japan, according to historians...
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