Kim Yeon-koung has been named the world's top female volleyball player.Volleyballworld.com, a website affiliated with FIVB, the sport's world governing body, on Jan. 16 named Kim the best female player last year. The site ranked the 12 best players per gender from Jan. 10-16 by looking at 2021 highl

Korea.net on Dec. 31 named Japanese-language staff writer Lee Kyoung Mi as this year's staff of the year.She captured reader attention with interesting, informative and easy-to-read articles such as "What is the secret behind Korean strawberries' success?" (Feb. 5), "Warm postbox sends consoling res

SM Entertainment founder and Chairman Lee Soo-man, "Parasite" director Bong Joon-ho and Hybe Chairman Bang Si-hyuk have made this year's "Variety 500."The U.S. pop culture magazine Variety since 2017 has released its rankings of the most influential business leaders shaping the global media industry

On December 2, WalkintoKorea has had the chance to interview Chairman Kwon Joong-soon of Daejeon Metropolitan City Council, a kind, wonderful gentleman. Chairman Kwon ranked first in the integrity evaluation of the metropolitan city council last year organized by the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights

Soccer star Son Heung-min of the English Premier League's (EPL) Tottenham Hotspur is this year's Korean athlete of the year.Gallup Korea on Dec. 13 announced the results of a survey conducted from Nov. 5-28 on 1,700 people age 13 or older nationwide, with the overwhelming majority of 72.8% (each vot

Canon Korea Co., Ltd., a total imaging solution company announced that it will hold collaboration events with Hyung-won Kang, a photojournalist of Canon Gallery, and host a YouTube live seminar to commemorate the launch of the high-speed full-frame mirrorless EOS R3.Photojournalist Hyungwon Kang was

Cha Seung-hoon is a professional gamer and member of the national esports team.He played the game "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" at the Esports Championships East Asia and Game Culture Festival 2021 from Sept. 10-12 at the handball stadium of Olympic Park in Seoul's Songpa-gu District.The first esp

Smartphones and computers are daily necessities for Generation Z children of Homometabus. Children meet friends and exchange learning information within the Digital Metaverse. It became their territory and became their home of life. Now, we have to evolve children into human beings with tools that f

*‘Ottchil’ means natural lacquer in Korean.Lee Ki-sang is a natural lacquer craftsman who is active in the Daejeon Viewers Media Center production team and the Sumitdeul Village Broadcasting in Jeongnim-dong, Daejeon.He has studied crafts, culture, and history, materials, and efficacy related to tra

The number of students taking Korean studies courses worldwide has broken the 40,000 mark.The Korea Foundation on Oct. 18 said that over the past decade, it set up and supported 2,070 courses on Korean studies at 220 universities in 55 countries, with about 40,000 students taking the courses.The fou

Recently, WalkintoKorea has got the chance to interviewed Mr. Yang Dong-ki, the 12th president of the Daejeon Tourism Association.Chairman Yang Dong-ki graduated from the Department of Tourism at Sejong University, a prestigious department of tourism that produced a lot of tourism talent, and has ru

Yang Hyang-ja is the Chairman of the World Food and Culture Institute. Under the mission of spreading Korean cuisine to the world, she also became one of the co-chairs of the WTCO (World Top Chefs Organization). She recently shared a few words about Korean cuisine as well as future plans to contribu

BTS and British rock band Coldplay on Sept. 24 at 1 p.m. Korean Standard Time (KST) dropped their new collaborative song "My Universe."The song's lyric video was released on Coldplay's official YouTube channel. The release date of the official music video is to be announced later.According to Coldpl

Daejeon Culture Broadcasting Corporation and Hanwha Group have selected the winners of the 2021 Hanbit Grand Prize to find hidden workers in various fields in the community and promote them widely.Seong Nak-won, president of the Daejeon Film Association, was selected as the winner of the 2021 Hanbit

President Moon Jae-in on Sept. 14 gave to members of K-pop sensation BTS certificates of appointment as "special envoy for future generations and culture" at Cheong Wa Dae.Earlier in July, the president had appointed the septet as special envoy to lead international cooperation in global issues give

Korean painter Lee Jae-ho, is the master of real-landscape paintings, and also an honorary professor at Hannam University. In his career, he has run 38 individual exhibitions, 450 group exhibitions, and 60 international exhibitions. Recently, his 38th individual exhibition was successfully held with

A woman in a YouTube commercial for an insurance company shows off her attractive appearance and dancing skills. This ad exceeded 10 million views in under a month. Yet the public initially failed to notice something important -- she is a "virtual human." People expressed surprise after their discov

The demonstration team of the Seoul-based World Taekwondo (WT), the martial art's world governing body, has advanced to the semifinals of "America's Got Talent" (AGT), a U.S. reality competition show on NBC.The team on Aug. 25 secured one of the top five semifinal spots through a public vote online.

In June, breaking news from the performing arts community came from France. The Paris Opera Ballet (POB), one of the world's four most prestigious ballet companies, named Korean ballerina Park Sae-eun as danseuse etoile (principal dancer), the first Asian to receive the honor in the 352-year history

Maybe you have fallen in love with the Korean language thanks to K-dramas or K-pop. Especially for people who are used to the Roman alphabet, looking at the Hangul (Korean alphabet) for the first time, it’s like discovering a new world. However, like any other language, it requires time, discipline,