According to the Korea Foundation, the wave of Korean culture, also known as hallyu, increased its global fanbase by 11% in 2019—and leading the charge has been K-pop. Groups such as BTS and Blackpink ...

Recently, a man I met with to work on a new project, a man who has no previous experience with Korea, told me he’s going to start studying and ...

Korean is one of the most popular Asian languages for non-native speakers. It garners a surprising amount of interest. However, a lot of interesting things happen there. It’s where Samsung lives.

Recently on my YouTube channel, I recorded an interview with a "K-pop” Korean language student. I was asked by the National Institute of Korean Language to make a video to investigate the way the ...

I remember my first encounters with foreign languages. I was very little. All those unfamiliar letters on the labels of the candy bars I ate, or on the juices I drank, seemed so pointy, ...

In just a few weeks, the highly anticipated second season of Korean television series "Squid Game" will premiere on Netflix. In conjunction with the hype, language-learning app Duolingo is partnering ...

Each Monday night, in the dead of winter, Arti Sardesai drives to the Miller Library in Ellicott City, takes a seat and immerses herself in learning Korean. At 49, it’s not easy mastering a foreign ...

The timing was never right for Sydney Castiglia to learn Korean growing up. Her parents shared cultural traditions, but as a military family that moved a lot, their priority was helping their ...

Today’s “globalized Korean” is being taught and learned in situations of varying desperation. For some students, Korean is essential for their survival. That desperation is described in all its ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joan Vos MacDonald is a New York-based writer who covers Korean media. When Mina Oh first began making videos in 2008, she found ...