Korea has asked Unesco to recognize two collections that trace how Koreans wrote, learned and defended their language — from women in secluded quarters to linguists resisting colonial suppression — as ...

From K-pop phenomena "Gangnam Style" and BTS to South Korea's success on screen with Parasite and Squid Game, interest in Korean popular culture has skyrocketed in the past decade. One way experts ...

Students in last semester’s “North Korea and Religion” course studied eleven memoirs written by North Korean defectors. Then, on the final day of class in December, they heard directly from one. The ...

A government panel in South Korea is charged with coming up with Korean equivalents for foreign terms that keep slipping into the language. Among the challenges: Finding ways to say things like ...

A former senior South Korean diplomat on Monday stressed the need to keep denuclearization language in policy toward North ...

A research team from the University of Oxford in the UK conducted a language comparison project based on interviews with 100 North Korean defectors residing in the UK and South Korea. The results ...