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 ...

Established over 40 years ago, this Koreatown store has evolved from a community bookshop into a global cultural destination!

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, ...

For many Korean children, the careful rolling of "gimbap" (seaweed rice roll) or the aroma of sizzling kimchi pancakes isn’t just about food — it is a love language passed down through generations.

In the South Korean army, some writings of the American leftist Noam Chomsky are, literally, forbidden. Last week, South Korea’s constitutional court upheld a controversial ban on 23 books that ...

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 ...

Nobel Prize laureate Han Kang's translated novel We Do Not Part leads a strong line-up of new English-language Korean ...

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 ...

Korean books garnered many readers' attention in Beijing. Some 1,500 Korean books were introduced at the 22nd Beijing International Book Fair held from Aug. 26 to 30. Among them were "The Thorn ...