In the U.S., you might think of Thanksgiving as the holiday where we give thanks. For Korean families, Chuseok is a similar ...

Chuseok is South Korea’s autumn harvest festival, similar to the Mid-Autumn Festival in China and Taiwan, Tsukimi in Japan, and Tết Trung Thu in Vietnam. During Chuseok, many Koreans travel to their ...

South Korea’s Supreme Court upheld a 20-year prison sentence for a 15-year-old who killed his mother after she scolded him.

Another Chuseok tradition in modern-day Korea is that of gift-giving. Koreans will present gifts to not only their relatives, but also to friends and business acquaintances to show their thanks and ...

As a part of the Leo Gala Series to give wider publicity to Korean culture and promote its beauty beyond the facade, Asia Society Korea brings you one of South Korea's biggest national holidays and ...

A middle school student who killed his mother with a weapon and claimed to be a "crime boy" has been sentenced to 20 years in ...

Families stay up late to watch spooky movies and share ghost stories. This is Halloween, a celebration that gets its name ...

In 2022, Min moved from South Korea to the U.S., which was also his first time to visit the country that would be his adopted ...

Hong Kong was closed for the Mid-Autumn Festival, and South Korea was closed for Chuseok—Thanksgiving Day. Mainland mega-capitalization stocks were stronger, led by banks, energy, insurance ...

Sony’s Venom: The Last Dance, starring Tom Hardy, grossed $2.2m, roughly a third of all ticket sales from Friday to Sunday, ...

The event ended with BIFF confirming that it will make a one-off key shift in its 2025 festival dates to accommodate Korea‘s major Chuseok holiday (which follows the Korean lunar calendar ...