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 ...

Jeungpyeon is one of the rice cake varieties and is known for its bubbly texture inside, like bread. It is a round-shaped rice cake made from non-glutinous rice powder, rice wine garnished with ...

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 ...

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 ...

The minimum hourly wage for next year has been set at KRW 10,320, up 2.9% from this year's. The Minimum Wage Council on July 10 decided this at its 12th plenary meeting at Government Complex-Sejong in ...

An estimated 80 million people worldwide speak Korean, and many more are interested in learning it. As Korean is a language isolate, or a tongue with no known genealogical relations to another ...

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 ...

Korea ranks seventh in a government reliability survey of 20 countries by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The Ministry of the Interior and Safety on July 18 said ...

President Yoon Suk Yeol announced his so-called "unification doctrine" at a ceremony to mark the 79th anniversary of Liberation Day. Dubbing unification as a "crucial historic challenge that must be ...

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 ...

- Achievements of the Digital New Deal from the past one year of its implementation by the government and private sector celebrated · With participation of approximately 170,000 domestic businesses, ...

2022 is the Year of the Black Tiger under the Asian zodiac. In Korean culture, the tiger symbolizes power and strength as it has long been considered a guardian. Those born in this year are said to be ...