Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo illustration by Allison Hong / Los Angeles Times; Unsplash) Kim Hyeong-bae, a South Korean linguist, had a problem: how to ...

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol’s “unnecessary” use and praise of English has some citizens alleging he has a “complex.” Yoon has been heard using English terms on several occasions, even when ...

Several Korean terms rooted in daily life and social relationships have been formally entered into the Oxford English Dictionary, the latest sign of Korea’s widening cultural reach. New entries ...

Past Lives takes place across time and countries — and languages. Nora, the character at the center of A24’s acclaimed new drama, switches between her native Korean and the English she’s spoken since ...

A government panel in South Korea is charged with coming up with Korean equivalents for foreign terms that keep slipping into the language. Among the challenges: Finding ways to say things like ...