Photographer Kim Seunggu documents “leisure culture” in South Korea, a country that recently proposed increasing its maximum working week from 52 to 69 hours and where “gwarosa,” or death by overwork, ...

Han Youngsoo chronicled the postwar transformation of mid-century Seoul, complicating popular depictions of that era as one ...

Mr. Ahn, now 37, knew all along that his fame could be fleeting. “I started as a model, but the career has a short life span, ...

After emerging from the 1950-53 war with North Korea, South Korea emerged as one of the 20th century’s most remarkable economic success stories, becoming a developed, globally connected ...