Branches of King Sejong Institute (KSI) worldwide are holding Korean speaking and writing contests as well as those for Korean culture to commemorate the birthday (May 15) of King Sejong the Great, ...
Visitors on April 9 read at Jibokjae Hall of Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul. Formerly the private study of King Gojong of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910), this venue through Oct. 31 is open to the ...
The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources (MOTIR, Minister JK Kim) will host InterBattery 2026, Korea’s largest international battery exhibition, at COEX in Seoul from March 11 to 13, 2026. Now in ...
A bilateral agreement with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) worth USD 65 billion has been concluded to pursue joint projects in the defense industry and artificial intelligence (AI). Presidential Chief ...
Oppa, a term for a girl's elder brother, older male friend or boyfriend, dokkaebi (goblin), "chimaek," or the pairing of beer and fried chicken, and mukbang (meokbang), an online video of a person ...
The labor market next year will accept around 191,000 foreign workers designated non-professional. The Office for Government Policy Coordination on Dec. 22 in a meeting of the Foreign Workforce Policy ...
The Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment will launch a stable basis for running a power system centered on renewable energy to supply 100 gigawatts of such energy by 2030. At a briefing on the ...
A system will be expanded to more domestic universities to offer longer-term visas to talented graduate students in science and engineering. The K-star (Korea Science and Technology Advanced Human ...
Korean Augmentation to the U.S. Army (KATUSA) is a program in which selected Korean soldiers serve alongside their American counterparts in Korea, live on U.S. bases and must use English. Established ...
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 country's small modular reactors (SMRs) under development have received high marks for global competitiveness in an evaluation by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) of the Organisation for Economic ...
The national budget for 2026 is an estimated KRW 728 trillion, up 8.1% from KRW 673 trillion this year and the first time in history for the figure to break KRW 700 trillion. The Cabinet on Aug. 29 in ...