Reclining on sofas at a South Korean cafe, customers sip iced americanos as they gaze past barbed wire fences and watchtowers ...

Park said Koreans first began immigrating to the U.S. in 1903, with many coming to cities along the Pacific Ocean. After the ...

Korean companies largely require employees to work on May 2, the bridge day between Labor Day and Children's Day, with ...

To this day, South Korea celebrates Chinese festivals such as the Lunar New Year (Seollal), for which it observes a three-day holiday. During my numerous visits to Manila, I have noticed that the ...

I was proud that one of the event's 30 selected pieces was mine. A Haft Seen table featuring seven symbolic items for Nowruz (Iranian New Year) was alongside a Seollal (Lunar New Year) table adorned ...

Additionally, each has its own name for New Year. For example, in South Korea, Lunar New Year is called Seollal. In Vietnam, Lunar New Year is called Tết, short for Tết Nguyên Đán.

As one of Korea’s three major holidays – the others being Seollal (January 1) and Dano (a day of spiritual rites) – Chuseok is traditionally celebrated to thank the heavens for a successful ...