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A dancer in traditional Azerbaijani costume performs during the Azerbaijani Cultural Night held at The Ambassador Seoul – A Pullman Hotel in Jung District, central Seoul, on April 10. [SEO JI-EUN]

Azerbaijani embassy celebrates cultural heritage and ties with Korea during Cultural Night in Seoul

The Azerbaijani Embassy hosted a Cultural Night in Seoul on Friday to celebrate the nation’s heritage and its strengthening bilateral ties with Korea.

2026.4.13

Fans cheer during the 'BTS the Comeback Live: Arirang' performance held at Gwanghwamun Square in central Seoul on March 21. [AP/YONHAP]

How BTS won over a generation K-pop never expected

A part of BTS’s global fandom skews older, some calling themselves “Silver ARMY.” While the fandom remains famously diverse across ethnicity, age and identity, the visibility of older fans has become increasingly difficult to miss.

2026.4.6

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Korean President Lee Jae Myung, center, speaks with a bipartisan group of four U.S. lawmakers on the recent immigration raid in Georgia, tariff negotiations and alliance matters in New York on Sept. 22. [JOINT PRESS CORPS]

President Lee tells U.S. lawmakers he hopes to see no repeat of ICE raid that detained Korean workers

President Lee Jae Myung told U.S. lawmakers in New York on Monday that he hopes to see no recurrence of the immigration raid that resulted in the detention of South Korean workers at a battery plant in Georgia last month.

2025.9.23

Ko Yong-hui, the late mother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, is pictured with son Kim Jong-chul and daughter Kim Yo-jong. [BUNGEI SHUNJU]

'Who was Kim Jong-un’s mother?': Journalist searches for answers in new book

There’s not much publicly known about the mother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. She wasn’t part of the ruling Kim family’s sacred revolutionary bloodline. She rarely appeared in state media. And then, she vanished.

2025.7.1

Commissioner of the Overseas Koreans Agency Lee Sang-deok and people of Korean ethnicity from 20 countries pose for a commemorative photograph during “2025 Future Leaders’ Conference″ that kicked off at Songdo Convensia in Incheon on May 27. [OVERSEAS KOREAN AGENCY]

Overseas Koreans Agency convenes leadership conference on empowering diaspora

The state-run Overseas Koreans Agency convened a conference in Incheon this week to empower the Korean diaspora to build a global network and remind them of their ties to Korea.

2025.5.29

Overseas Koreans Agency (OKA) Commissioner Lee Sang-deok speaks during a press conference at the OKA headquarters in Songdo, Incheon on Feb. 11, 2025. [OVERSEAS KOREANS AGENCY]

Overseas Koreans Agency aims to bolster position of diaspora this year

The Overseas Koreans Agency (OKA) highlighted its ambition to strengthen the capabilities of the Korean diaspora by promoting various programs encompassing overseas Koreans at home and abroad as it announced its 2025 policy vision Tuesday.

2025.2.11

″Wall of Blades″ (2023) by Jung Yeon-doo [MMCA]

[INTERVIEW] Story of Korean immigrants to Mexico shown in MMCA exhibition

Multimedia artist Jung Yeon-doo's exhibition, "One Hundred Years of Travels," at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, explores the migration story of Korean immigrants in Mexico, using the prickly pear cactus as a symbol.

2023.10.19

From left: actor John Cho, director and actor Justin Chon, actor Steven Yeun and director Lee Isaac Chung pose for a photo during the press conference for the “Special Program in Focus: Korean Diasporic Cinema” session at the KNN Theater in Busan on Friday. [SONG BONG-GEUN]

[BIFF 2023] Korean American filmmakers discuss cultural diversity

The rise of Korean content in Hollywood has opened doors for Korean diasporic creators, according to Korean American filmmakers and actors speaking at the Busan International Film Festival.

2023.10.6

Artist Jung Yeon-doo stands in front of his 14-meter (46-foot)-tall installation piece “Wall of Blades” (2023) on display at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) Seoul for the 'MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2023' titled “One Hundred Years of Travels,″ during a press tour on Sept. 5. [MMCA]

Korean immigrants overseas highlighted in Jung Yeon-doo's exhibit at MMCA

Knives made out of sugar, immigrants reenacting their labor for tourists and retelling local folklore of the immigrants of a century ago — irony fills the halls of Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) in "MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2023."

2023.9.7