To coincide with BTS’s comeback album, “Arirang,” the Korea Heritage Agency will release merchandise and host a series of heritage-themed events, including a social media scavenger hunt, the agency said on Tuesday.
The 2026 Seoul Living Design Fair showcased 10 Danish brands, reflecting the growing popularity of Nordic design in Korea, with notable exhibitions from &Tradition, Silkeborg Uldspinderi, and Ester & Erik.
Korean first lady Kim Hea Kyung, right, and Brazilian first lady Rosangela da Silva check fabric for traditional Korean attire, or hanbok, at Gwangjang Market in Jongno District, central Seoul, on Feb. 21.
A proposal has been raised to simplify the ancestral rite table for the Lunar New Year holiday to ease the recurring burden of preparing jeon, or Korean pancake, a common sacrificial dish.
The modern Korean calendar features two New Year holidays — but for decades, successive governments recognized only Jan. 1, rejecting the traditional Lunar New Year long celebrated by Koreans.
A foreign national who posed as a traditional Korean medicine doctor and administered acupuncture treatments has been sentenced to prison.
Six out of 10 Koreans do not plan to set up the traditional ancestor-honoring ceremony, known as charye, during this year's Chuseok holiday, a survey showed Friday, indicating a shift in perceptions surrounding ancestral rituals.
A government-run festival on Korean tradition, featuring hanbok and crafts, is set to take place in the Seongsu neighborhood in Seongdong District, eastern Seoul, from Sept. 25 to 28.
The winner of the 2025 Korea Tourism Souvenir Contest is a wine stopper whose design is inspired by the royal throne from the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910), the Korea Tourism Organization said Wednesday.
Sword dances woven into solemn royal ancestral rites, a stripped-down undersea romance in the sorrowful sound of Korea's traditional musical genre of pansori, performed only by a drummer and singer — and a new "Shimcheong" is born.
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