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Paju, a city some 40 kilometers northwest of Seoul, looks to attract visitors during the Lunar New Year holiday when many stores, restaurants and travel spots are closed. Tourist sites located near the banks of the Imjin River in Paju, including the Imjingak Peace Gondola, DMZ LIVE Experience Hall and Dokgae Bridge, will be open without any schedule changes. The gondolas will be free for those aged 80 or older. From ...

With its scenic backdrops and old-time feel, it has become a popular place where many Korean historical dramas are filmed.

Excerpted with permission from ‘I Went to See My Father’, by Kyung-Sook Shin, translated from the Korean by Anton Hur.

Read something in the mainstream press and Confucianism will likely be linked to any or all of the following situations: the crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214, the reason young Korean children study all night at hagwons, the overly puritan nature of some Korean dramas, workplace bullying and gapjil, BTS phenomenal choreography, the Miracle on the Han River, why the English subtitles didnt properly reflect the han of Squid Game, the rise of the new right in Korean politics, and so on and so on....

Read something in the mainstream press and Confucianism will likely be linked to any or all of the following situations: the crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214, the reason young Korean children study all night at hagwons, the overly puritan nature of some Korean dramas, workplace bullying and gapjil, BTS phenomenal choreography, the Miracle on the Han River, why the English subtitles didnt properly reflect the han of Squid Game, the rise of the new right in Korean politics, and so on and so on....

Joseon era ancestral rites offerings were simpler than todays, research shows Posted : 2021-02-10 09:09 Updated : 2021-02-10 18:09 An ancestral rites table at the home of the family of the first son of Joseon Era scholar Toegye Yi Hwang / Courtesy of Korean Studies Institute By Kwon Mee-yoo The charyesang (ancestral rites table) is an important part of Lunar New Year in Korea. One might immediately associate it with all sorts of delicacies laid out on the table, typically seen these days. Ho...