That Korean folktale was also taught in Japanese textbooks with watercolor artwork; a beautiful nymph taking a bath in a pond in the woods leaving her thin dress hanging on a tree branch and a ...

For Gene Kang, the hanbok represents history and culture. The Korean American attorney donned a blue silk wedding hanbok fitted with a black cap to celebrate Korean Hanbok Day in New Jersey.

Approaching the country as a tourist gave him increased (though strictly guided) access to what he describes as a "very theatrical" city and its socialist-fairy-tale designs. "It's the kind of ...

By Alexis Soloski Korean fairy tales can trend macabre; a few skew more grisly than even the Brothers Grimm. In the Korean version of “Cinderella,” for instance, Cinderella dies. (For a while ...

a massive amalgam of Korean fairy tales, fables, folklore and historical happenings which stretches over 100 years and two continents, all of it quietly trailing the reality of Isaac’s family ...