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In June 1950, President Harry Truman ordered a naval blockade of the Korean coast and authorized Gen. Douglas MacArthur to send U.S. ground troops into Korea. During the three-year war, history would ...

CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea — The history of the Korean War will again become a required course at the Korea Military Academy and part of a more “future-oriented” curriculum for future South Korean ...

One of the most talked about K-dramas so far this year is Netflix’s When Life Gives You Tangerines, a moving, intergenerational family saga that follows the trials and triumphs of Oh Ae-sun and her ...

Editor's note (April 27, 2020): This article was published on September 9, 2018. It has been updated only to reflect Kim Jong Un's latest meetings with President Donald Trump. September 9, 2018 marked ...

Korean history is not usually taught in schools here in the United States. We learn it in other ways: through our family and friends; through Korean school programs, often run through evangelical and ...

If Juhea Kim’s "Beasts of a Little Land" (Ecco/HarperCollins, 416 pp., ★★★ out of four, out Tuesday) were filmed, you’d want to see it in theaters, with a giant screen and a sweeping soundtrack.

The Korean War was the first time the United States military engaged in a shooting conflict after the end of World War II; it was also the first of many sparks that really turned the Cold War hot.

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the 1963 recruitment agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany (then West Germany) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea). Under this agreement, Korean ...