Gilt-bronze shoes excavated from a Baekje tomb at Sinchon-ri, Naju. Picture a pair of shoes so heavy, so rigid, and so covered in metal spikes that walking even a few steps in them would be n…

The Gilt-bronze Incense Burner of Baekje, one of Korea's most celebrated National Treasures. On a freezing evening in December 1993, a team of researchers in Buyeo, South Korea, was about…

If you've ever bitten into gimbap expecting sushi, you already know it isn't the same thing. The seaweed and rice might look identical from across the room, but the flavor underneath is …

Somewhere between a Seoul convenience store and your Instagram feed, a toast sandwich started showing up everywhere: thick golden bread, a fat pillow of egg spilling out the sides, and a sauce t…

Every case in this hallway is hiding a small, strange kind of magic Walk through the permanent exhibition halls of the National Museum of Korea, and it's easy to move past most objects qu…

A fine-lined bronze mirror, Gojoseon Room, National Museum of Korea [국립중앙박물관 소장] What would it take to convince an entire village that you could speak to the sun? For a leader in Gojoseon-era…

Korean Street Food Recipes to Make at Home Ask anyone who's spent an evening wandering a Korean street market what they remember most, and it's rarely a single dish. It's the sequen…

Sweet Korean Pancake Hotteok Recipe Walk through a Korean street market on a cold evening and you'll usually smell hotteok before you see it, that warm, slightly caramelized scent drifting …