The King Sejong Institute announced Thursday that its Mobile KSI application now offers advanced Korean learning programs. The application was first launched in 2024 and has allowed users to study ...

Members of a blind art troupe perform traditional Korean music in front of a statue of King Sejong the Great at Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul on May 14, 2025, one day ahead of the king's 628th birthday.

When the sun went down on Thursday, bright neon light began to shine on the statue of King Sejong in Gwanghwamun Square, slowly from his head to his feet, as if this great king of the Joseon Dynasty - ...

The author is a national team reporter at the JoongAng Ilbo. On Oct. 18, 1422, in the fourth year of his reign, King Sejong the Great found a letter of request from a court office in charge of ...

A ceremony honoring the portrait of King Sejong as a youth on May 9 is held at Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul hosted by the Sejong Institute for National Governance and a society honoring the monarch. As ...

Joan Vos MacDonald is a New York-based writer who covers Korean media. King Sejong the Great (1397 - 1450) was acknowledged as an outstanding ruler of Korea’s Joseon dynasty at least partly ...

The movie depicts the three months before Choong-nyung (the future Sejong the Great) becomes king. The Annals of the Joseon Dynasty, which follows the history of the Joseon Dynasty between 1413 ...

The Seoul Metropolitan Government has decided to build a statue of King Sejong, the fourth king of the Joseon Kingdom (1392-1910), next to that of Admiral Yi Sun-sin (1545-1598) in central Seoul's ...

"The Great King, Sejong" is a full-scale political drama describing how King Sejong and his loyal retainers cooperate and contrive to make his dynasty a better place. While King Sejong was on the ...

Koreans celebrate Hangeul Day every Oct. 9. It was during the reign of King Sejong, the fourth king of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) that Hangeul was created. King Sejong is one of only two ...