Foot-long parasitic ribbon worms infest Han River during eel fishing season

A significant number of ribbon worms are appearing at the mouth of the Han River with the arrival of spring.

2024-03-28

Convenience stores rolling out foods for Chobok

Convenience stores are marketing foods to help people fight the scorching heat as the temperature starts to climb.

2021-07-05

Head of cartoon association makes blood pledge to nurture authors

A fun fact about Lineage, one of Korea’s oldest but still most popular online role-playing games (RPG) published by NCSoft, is that it is based on a comic book series with the same title by Shin Eel-suk. “One day, I had a dream where I was ...

2020-12-03

Seafood usurper steals samgyetang's seasonal crown

The Korean summer starts with samgyetang, a ginseng and chicken soup believed to ward off the heat, and sales of meat typically jump up accordingly. For some reason, that didn't happen this year.

2020-07-17

korea joongAng daily

Foot-long parasitic ribbon worms infest Han River during eel fishing season

Convenience stores rolling out foods for Chobok

Head of cartoon association makes blood pledge to nurture authors

Seafood usurper steals samgyetang's seasonal crown