Leading Korean content firms including CJ ENM and Webtoon are joining forces with Asian-focused streamer Rakuten Viki as it launches a “worldwide celebration of Korean drama” at the end of the month.

The inaugural Korean Studies symposium at UB examined a wide range of topics in Korean film and television, including sexuality, LGBTQ representation, translation, violence, and popular productions ...

Students in last semester’s “North Korea and Religion” course studied eleven memoirs written by North Korean defectors. Then, on the final day of class in December, they heard directly from one. The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joan Vos MacDonald is a New York-based writer who covers Korean media. In 2022 Korean was the seventh most-studied language on the ...

But Squid Game isn’t a total anomaly. The Korean series is one chapter in a larger story with its own name and history: a seismic, ongoing shift in the global entertainment landscape known as Hallyu.

The department of Asian societies, cultures and languages has launched a Korean language program, according to ASCL and history professor Soyoung Suh. Starting with KOR 1: “First Year Course in Korean ...