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Changdeokgung throws open gates for nighttime tour

A nighttime tourism program at Changdeokgung palace will commence on Aug. 23, the Cultural Heritage Administration announced Monday. The annual “Moonlight Tour at Changdeokgung Palace” allows visito...

Aug 6, 2018
Culture
Stay active and cool at Sports Monster

In the stifling midsummer heat in Korea, even walking five minutes outdoors can be a sweaty, sticky, endeavor. Seeking refuge from the sun, but restless with unconsumed energy, The Korea Herald’s fi...

Aug 6, 2018
Culture
Fading voices of 22 comfort women to be shown in theaters

When the documentary film “Twenty Two” started filming in 2014, there were 22 surviving “comfort women” -- euphemism for those forced into sexual slavery by Japan during World War II -- in China. As...

Aug 5, 2018
Culture
‘Counters’ shows raw anger in face of brazen xenophobia

How does someone shouting into the microphone, “Dear s--- Koreans whom I hate the most in the world, how are you?” make you feel? A civilized reaction would be to call the police, file complaints, or...

Aug 2, 2018
Culture
[Weekender] Korean surfers break away from ‘surfer dude’ stereotypes

Koreans explore new world of surfing while building own niche across coastlines

Aug 2, 2018
Culture
[Photo News] What’s redder than the sun?

A woman was spotted carefully drying the year’s precious harvest of chili peppers at a traditional Hanok village in Hamyang-gun, South Gyeongsang Province, on Thursday. Vegetable harvest in Korea th...

Aug 2, 2018
Culture
‘Lion King’ readies first ‘original’ performance in Korea

Beloved 1994 Disney animation “The Lion King” has been made into a Broadway musical seen by 95 million people across the world since 1997. More than two decades after its debut, the musical will lan...

Jul 30, 2018
Culture
[Eye Plus] Summer fun in the heart of city

A record heat wave has been scorching the peninsula this summer, with a temperature north of 40 degrees Celsius marked in Daegu. The heat wave even thinned out the crowds of the usually busy streets ...

Jul 26, 2018
Culture
[Weekender] Stereotyping personalities -- by blood type

Why Koreans believe in, or at least are entertained by, blood type personality theory

Jul 26, 2018
Culture
[Eye]Trailblazing through botany

First female chief of national arboretum shares adventures, love for plants, dream for DMZ

Jul 26, 2018
Culture
[Weekender] Are men with type B blood really womanizers?

Despite it being pseudoscience, stereotyping blood type personalities remains rampant

Jul 26, 2018
Culture
Late novelist posthumously receives highest cultural honor

The government on Tuesday bestowed the late novelist Choi In-hun with the Geumgwan Order of Cultural Merit, the highest class of its kind, for his contribution to Korean literature. Minister of Cult...

Jul 24, 2018
Culture
[Photo News] 2018 Waterbomb Festival blasts summer heat

The annual WaterBomb Festival was held Friday and Saturday at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul. On the first day of the event, K-pop stars, such as Hyolyn and Jessi, appeared as guests with performances that...

Jul 23, 2018
Culture
‘Karl Marx is on a train to Busan’

Slavoj Zizek compares Marx to the living dead, with what he was talking about more relevant than ever

Jul 22, 2018
Culture
[Herald Interview] It all began with the house

Mark Tetto talks about how moving into Pyeonghaengjae, hanok in Gahoe-dong, has profoundly changed his life

Jul 19, 2018
Culture

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