Korean Martial Arts have rich and deeply rooted skills that come from the Land of the Morning Calm and have been exported to many other countries around the world. Korea has had many martial arts in its history, but the most well-known today are Tae Kwon Do, Hapkido and Kumdo.   Tae Kwon Do Tae

The Korean language belongs to the Altaic family, which covers a wide range of nations from Turkey in the west to Japan in the east. A highly inflected, polysyllabic and atonal language, Korean is structurally different from Chinese but similar to Japanese. Korean and Japanese incorporate a rich vocabulary from Chinese, much the way English

Apartments Korea is a very small country dotted everywhere by small mountains, so available land to build homes for their population of 45 million people is very sparse. For this reason, 80% of Koreans live in some form of apartment building. Flying into Incheon International airport will give first-time visitors to Korea a staggering view

Hospitals Health care in Korea rates anywhere from average to excellent. Small hospitals can be found literally on every block, though unless you have nothing more serious than a cold, it is advisable to take the time to see a doctor at a larger hospital. Most Korean doctors have been educated in a western country

Initial Meetings When being introduced to a Korean person for the first time, it is custom to shake their hand and bow at the same time. The right hand is always used to shake with, while the left hand either helps the right hand or touches the right arm near the elbow. Instead of pumping

South Korea has been one of the most ambitious and progressive countries in Asia in the last fifty years. Its ancient culture has adopted, for better or worse, many western ideas and systems. Along with the changes in commerce have come alterations in human behavior and attitudes, including a recent softening toward homosexuality and lesbianism

Korean food is rich in nutrition, balanced in content, and low in calories and is richly endowed with fermented foods, vegetables and grains, soups, teas, liquors, confectionery and soft beverages. They say you can eat as much Korean food as you like without gaining weight! This may very well be true as most Koreans who

At the Table Korean restaurants usually have low tables where guests sit on the floor to eat, though many restaurants will have a table or two with chairs. Of course, western-style and upper class restaurants mainly have tables and chairs to dine in. Sitting cross-legged on the floor for at least an hour's dining can

Movie Theaters The movie industry in Korea is quite big, and as such, finding a movie theater is never a hard thing to do. The bigger cities will have larger and more modern theatres, of course, with Seoul having the best ones in the country. The Megabox in the Coex Mall is the largest movie

Secondary Education There are two basic sources of secondary education in Korea; public schools and private institutes ("Hakwon" in Korean). From far back in Korean history, the best Korean universities have selected only those students who scored highest on entrance exams held at the same time every year. These students in turn would receive the