Quite remarkably, while successfully celebrating literature and culture, the Kokrajhar Literature Festival also emphasized ...

He served as a judge for the annual “Utakai Hajime,” or the Imperial New Year’s Poetry Reading ceremony, and as a tanka adviser for the imperial family. His grand resume belies his checkered ...

He also became an enthusiast of tanka, a type of short poem. Mr. Marumo said the brisk rhythms resemble the martial songs that had once convinced him to volunteer to die during the war ...

The Constitutional Court is expected to decide in the coming days whether to oust Yoon in a case that ignited South Korea's worst political crisis in decades and rattled markets. Sign up here.

SEOUL: South Korea's opposition Democratic Party on Monday (Mar 17) urged the country's Constitutional Court to swiftly rule on President Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment, saying keeping the country ...

Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17 has become the highest-grossing film of the year to date at the South Korea box office. Warner Bros’ sci-fi feature, starring Robert Pattison, added $2.2m on its third ...

MacKenzie Bailey, a senior at Logos Academy in York, secured a top-five finish at the 2025 Pennsylvania Poetry Out Loud state championship, held on March 3 at the State Museum in Harrisburg.

Remembering that day still arouses a painful feeling of shame mixed with embarrassment in me. On Jan. 17, 1995, the Great Hanshin Earthquake struck Kobe and surrounding areas. Gathering ...

Lee remains the only leader without board membership among the chiefs of Korea's top four chaebol. He was part of the board from 2016 to 2019 when he served officially as vice chair, but he has ...

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