The historic summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump has put the so-called hermit kingdom back into the world's spotlight. For those clamouring to gain more ...

More than a thousand ancient Korean books of academic value in a U.S. university and a Japanese library are now available on the Internet as a South Korean university has recently begun an online ...

Ridibooks, which claims to be South Korea’s largest e-book vendor, announced that it has raised a $8 million Series B to improve its user experience and reach new customers. Investors include NeoPlux, ...

Visitors to Koryo Books stroll about in no rush. They browse through the “Boy Group” music collection, flip through Korean language books, and scan the back of the store for souvenirs representing ...

In honor of the Winter Olympics taking place now in Pyeongchang, I visited Koreatown’s bookstores. (Don’t miss our Koreatown guide). With new, used and specialty shops stocking comic books and manga, ...

A visit to the Gwanghwamun branch of Kyobo, Korea’s largest bookstore chain, provides many clues to the country’s present book market. Tables of test preparation books and shelves of English-language ...

K-dramas to K-pop have placed South Korea at the center of the media universe. Are K-books about to join them? Most prominently, The Vegetarian by Han Kang received the 2016 Man Booker International ...

Think of a language. Any language. Got it? Great. What language did you think of? If you’re reading this, you might have thought about Korean, but most people don't. The average person would have ...

Korea won the Nobel Prize for literature. So what’s next for Korean books? A decade ago, the Korean translations that made it into English were few and far between. It was easy for a library to own ...

Fallout: The Inside Story of America's Failure to Disarm North Korea Japanese title: 高容姫 「金正恩の母」になった在日コリアン North and South strategic competition (and in extremis cooperation) in Somalia in the early ...

SEOUL (Reuters Life!) - A collection of centuries-old Korean royal documents, taken by French troops when they invaded an island off the peninsula nearly 150 years ago, are being returned to Seoul ...