HANGZHOU – I met a strongwoman from North Korea and lived to tell the tale. I exaggerate, but Ri Song Gum is the Asian Games women’s 49kg champion in weightlifting. She produced a world-best clean and ...

Three years ago, Sadhana C was at the Inox in Kachiguda to watch the premiere of South Korean pop (k-pop) band BTS’s documentary Burn The Stage. She was expecting a sparsely populated hall. She didn’t ...

From the late 1990s, Korean dramas and K-pop idols started gaining traction in neighboring Asian countries like China and Japan, marking the start of Hallyu, or the Korean Wave. A handout photo made ...

Alia Bhatt learns to hello in Korean, reveals that her recent visit to South Korea was her maiden one and she has 'just been staring at the electrifying energy of the city' ...

Seoul: It's won Oscars. Its television shows and K-pop stars dominate global charts. Its leading novelist just won the Nobel literature prize. How did South Korea become such a global cultural ...