On the 17th November, Korean high school students test years of dedicated studying in the infamous Suneung – the national college entrance exam. We explore Suneung’s formidable reputation and the lengths students go to pass.

Here are our four top tips for maintaining your Korean fluency and avoiding the decline of your language skills.

I offer my personal opinion of the Korean bestseller-cum-‘self-help manual’, and the reason why I didn’t finish it. 

With temperatures reaching as low as -20 degrees, winter in South Korea can be bracing, meaning the common cold often thrives like in the UK.

Looking to start learning Korean? Here are some of the best textbooks, apps, and online sites to help you get started. 

These days, the coffee obsession in Korea is more evident than ever before. But where does this obsession come from and where can you find your caffeine hit in the country?

You may already be familiar with the terms Bookstagram and BookTok, which reading communities have cultivated on social media platforms such as Instagram and TikTok.

Anyone interested in Korean culture or language will probably be vaguely familiar with the concept of ‘jeong’, but truly understanding its meaning and significance in South Korean society proves harder to achieve through simply reading about it on the internet.

‘Hanryu’/‘Hallyu’ — ‘Han’ referring to Korea and ‘Ryu’ meaning wave — has come to dominate modern pop culture narratives in the last twenty years. While there is a broad spectrum of what exactly can be defined as part of Hallyu, it can often be boiled down to five main categories…