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Life in Seoul, at least for the initial period of my stay here, had me entrapped in a humdrum...

1980s Chinese cinema created the fifth generation of filmmakers, who were literally the fifth generation of graduates from the...

How it started  In a small subdivision in Cavite province, Philippines, 23-year-old Bie Rosales is known as the one...

If you grew up with the rise of pop music, you probably shifted from cassettes to CDs that came...

Female mobilisation for the building of the Korean nation has been a recurring theme in modern Korean history, and...

In the 1500s, Romeo was compelled to climb tall balconies to profess his love for Juliet, Niulang crossed an...

“Pachinko”, Minjin Lee’s epic historical fiction novel, published in 2017, follows a Korean family who immigrated to Japan, with...