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 ...

In this episode, Korean Englishman invites British English teachers to tackle real questions from the Korean CSAT (Suneung) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. South Korean linguists seek to integrate modern, foreign words into the language while protecting it too, so a committee works out ...

South Korea’s English education at public schools has made strides over the last decade with teachers capitalizing on the Internet and other high-tech educational tools to offer more interesting, ...

Alex Brown, a UK native, moved to South Korea to teach English after quitting his IT job in 2023. Brown was hired for a one-year teaching contract where he earns £1,200 a month and lives for free.

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 ...

PYEONGTAEK, South Korea — A group of North Korean defectors were puzzled by rows of blue squares projected onto a screen during a recent English class in this city 40 miles south of Seoul. “What is ...

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 ...