The emerging Dongdaemun Design Plaza will blend a new cultural center with a park memorializing a section of Seoul's ancient wall. Tony Law / Redux I’m being chauffeured through a parking garage ...

Firefighters are racing to save people and ancient artefacts from the largest ... and Suhnwook Lee in Seoul The deadly fires, fuelled by strong winds and dry land, have engulfed entire ...

Seoul, South Korea, January 1959: Sanding wood and applying a special plaster, these older orphans of the Seoul Police and Soldiers Orphanage are learning lacquerware manufacture, a centuries-old ...

One such world-acclaimed creator is Kim Sy Young, a master of black ceramics—an ancient Korean art form originating in the Goryeo Dynasty (918–1392). Known as an “alchemist of flame,” Sy ...

Here, in a farming community two hours' drive east of Seoul, Bang Hio Yeun, like his father and his father's father before him, brews his family's recipe for Korea's oldest liquor, makgeolli.