Nearly three-fourths of the country is mountainous, with myriad hiking opportunities for beginners and experts alike.

Forget food, K-pop or skincare, something else is attracting foreign tourists to Korea - urban hiking. We look at its climbing popularity Eating street food and shopping for K-pop merchandise and ...

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — Majestic and dramatic, with cliffs and waterfalls overlooking the sea, North Korea's Diamond Mountain has been revered throughout Korean history as the most beautiful of the ...

A TYPICAL DAY on a South Korean mountain starts much like a typical day in a South Korean office: with a subway journey. At a station in southern Seoul, scores of people emerge into the crisp dawn air ...

North Korean state media are encouraging citizens to undertake winter climbs of Mount Baekdu, a peak venerated by Koreans ancient and modern, North and South. The official Rodong Sinmun newspaper ...

Home to legendary K-pop groups like BTS, addictive TV shows like "Squid Games," and the aromatic and spicy kimchi, South Korea has become a huge exporter of culture. It has also become an ...

On the eastern coast just north of the 38th parallel, the Geumgang Mountains (Diamond Mountains) are a beautiful, impressive range. Within the bounds of the Geumgangs is the largest national park ...

2003-04-27 04:00:00 PDT Bongha, South Korea-- The old man in the gray felt hat walks purposefully around to the back of the house, through the yard with the malodorous mesh-wire chicken coop and past ...

Over the past year, the Korean government’s actions have been very successful in limiting the severity of the COVID-19 outbreak and lessening its economic impact. According to the IMF’s latest annual ...

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Korea.net publishes a series of articles, “Nature You Meet in the Mountains,” about the peninsula’s mushrooms, insects, trees and herbs & flowers. This stinkbug is about 23 to 25 millimeters long. It ...