If you have a lot of Korean friends you have probably been invited to go to a sauna or jjimjilbang...
Sailors, adventurers, diplomats, and businessmen made up the initial foreign community in Chemulpo, known today as Incheon.
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.
Living History: 20 Ways to See Korea as it Used to Be A guide to authentic history tourism in South Korea....
If you really want to learn about early Korean-Western relations, you have got to start by looking at Nagasaki, Japan....
Korea, in the summer of 1894, was a hotbed of intrigue and uncertainty. China and Japan were on the brink of war and many journalists eagerly made their way to Korea in hopes of witnessing the opening shots. Frank G. Carpenter was one of these journalists. Carpenter described the city...
At the mention of castles in Korea, images of pink-walled, crenellated love motels may spring to mind. Towering beside expressways...
Modern Seoul is filled with hotels and getting a room is generally not much of a problem, but it wasn’t...
History isn’t without its foibles and quirks. If it’s not lack a of information about Shakespeare, then it’s the real truths behind Lincoln’s press for abolishing slavery. Korean history, however, benefits from a stringent documentation of history and an unforgivingly detailed account of many historical figures. So here we are...
Ever imagined what travelling during Chuseok in Korea 100 Years ago was like? During Chuseok, travel in modern Korea is...
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