SEOUL--A South Korean deejay dressed as a Buddhist monk bounced up and down on stage while playing electronic music and shouting: “This too shall pass!” The performance brought cheers from a ...

Among Korea’s rarest and most beautiful religious artifacts, the Goryeo Period Buddhist paintings were largely lost due to ...

A towering 17th-century hanging Buddhist painting, regarded as one of the most representative examples of Korea’s large-scale ...

Churches that once overflowed with congregants now see attendance dwindling, and the number of monastic recruits in Korean Buddhism’s Jogye Order has declined significantly since the late 1990s.

1982 -- The South Korean government decides to convert the former headquarters of the Japanese colonial government into a national museum. The former colonial building was demolished in 1995. 1983 -- ...

A hanging Buddhist painting of Maitreya Buddha at Muryang Temple in Buyeo, South Chungcheong Province, will become a national treasure. The Korea Heritage Service announced ...

Every year on March 1, South Koreans commemorate the anniversary of the 1919 March 1 Movement, a nationwide uprising against ...

As the South Korean Constitutional Court’s impeachment trial of President Yoon Suk Yeol heads toward its finish, a second ...