The Chinese term "Hallyu," which literally translates as "Korean Wave" — now used to describe the popularity and spread of contemporary culture from South Korea — was coined in the mid-1990s ...

Kyungah Ham has commissioned embroidery pieces based on slang and South Korean culture from black-market artisans in North Korea. Since 2008, Korean artist Kyungah Ham has worked on a series of ...

South Korean customs officials in the port city of Busan say they have arrested two people they claim took crypto from a Telegram-based "drug lord" in exchange for smuggling narcotics.Per the ...

South Korea has spent billions of won to maintain North Korean customs facilities that remained largely idle after inter-Korean trade halted when the Kaesong Industrial Complex shut down in ...

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From BTS to Squid Game, South Korea reigns as a global exporter of pop culture. In the past two decades, government intervention has led the country to become a major driver of global soft power.