The Financial Services Commission announced that the Act on the Protection of Virtual Asset Users, which intends to establish a sound order in the virtual asset market and ensure protection for users, ...

Witness History in the Making: The Australian K-Pop Cover Dance Champion is Crowned! Get ready to experience the biggest K-Pop cover dance spectacle Down Under! The K-Pop Cover Dance Festival in ...

Kimchi exports last year broke all-time records in value and volume. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs on Jan. 12 said such overseas shipments in 2024 set a record-high USD 163.6 ...

The Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT, Minister Bae Kyunghoon) announced that, at the plenary session of the Presidential Advisory Council on Science and Technology (PACST, chaired by the President) ...

The Export Price Index (KRW basis) increased 4.0% from the previous month. o The index increased by 7.8% year-on-year in January of 2026. The Import Price Index (KRW basis) increased 0.4% from the ...

Domestic output and exports of cosmetics last year both set record highs. The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety on May 27 said its analysis of national cosmetics production, exports and imports last ...

The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) of the Republic of Korea announced on January 1, 2025, that Korea’s annual exports for the year of 2024 amounted to an all-time high USD 683.8 ...

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 ...

The Seoul Metropolitan Government has launched Seoul Tour Map to make finding popular attractions in the capital easy. The digital map offers a one-stop service for checking the city's best tourist ...

Described as the son of the heavens, Jumong was the founding king of Goguryeo, which eventually became the largest dynasty in Korean history. Also known as the Holy King of the East, mythological ...

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 ...

The Korean people’s love for drinking being punctuated by singing and dancing has deep roots, reaching back to the nation’s earliest beginnings. People would drink, sing and dance at harvest ...