Kim Tak-un was four years old when he was adopted by a Swedish family in 1974. Originally from South Korea, Tak-un had lived ...

A new exhibition and book chart the rise of Modern Korean art through the lens of its pioneers Park Seo-Bo, Kim Tschang-Yeul, ...

Former President Park Geun-hye visited the birthplace of former President Park Chung-hee on the 27th. This is the first time since August 2023 that former President Park publicly visited her ...

Kim, the former head of the now-defunct Korean Central Intelligence Agency, assassinated Park and Cha Ji-cheol, head of the ...

Former President Park Geun-hye visits the birthplace of former President Park Chung-hee and First Lady Yuk Young-soo. Kim Moon-soo, a presidential candidate of the People Power Party, is visiting ...

The winner of Tuesday’s presidential election in South Korea will take office just a day later, forgoing the usual, two-month ...

Long recognized as a symbolic and strategic base for conservative politics, the region is the hometown of former President Park Chung-hee, a central figure in Korea’s industrialization who was ...

Left: Former President Park Chung Hee, who secured a third term, delivers his inaugural address in Seoul on July 1, 1971. Right: Lee Jae-myung, the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party ...

Other evangelicals, like 70-year-old Gil Min-hwa, voted for Kim because she wants to see North and South Korea reunified. In ...

The country experienced rapid economic growth and industrialization especially during the authoritarian rule of Park Chung-hee, which largely fostered development in the southeast by nurturing ...