The King Sejong Institute has launched an online resource to help people studying Korean learn common phrases more easily using pictures and sounds. The institute, run by the International Korean Language Foundation, will begin a new section on its website starting Thursday, which explains key Korean words and phrases with pictures. The section also includes sounds, helping users hear how the Korean words are pronounced. For the first week, the section will feature vocabulary related to fruits a

MADRID (AFP) ― Researchers looking for the remains of Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes said Monday they had found part of a casket at a Madrid convent bearing the initials of the “Don Quixote” author.The team made the find over the weekend inside an alcove in the crypt at the Convent of the Barefoot Trinitarians during excavations aimed at solving the mystery of the writer’s final resting place. “Remains of caskets were found, wood, rocks, some bone fragments and indeed one of the fragments of

Seoul plans to establish a new body tasked with developing strategies and action plans for keeping hallyu vibrant and strong, the government said Thursday. In its annual policy report to President Park Geun-hye, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism unveiled the plan, adding that the envisioned entity will launch as early as March and will consist of experts from both the public and private sectors. “It will serve as a control tower, spearheading and coordinating various efforts to expand

NEW YORK (AP) ― Novelist Marilynne Robinson, economist Thomas Piketty and cartoonist Roz Chast are among the finalists for National Book Critics Circle prizes.Nobel laureate Toni Morrison will receive a lifetime achievement award, while National Book Award winner Phil Klay has won the John Leonard Prize for the best debut release of 2014, the short story collection “Redeployment.”Leonard, who died in 2008, was a reviewer for the New York Times and other publications and a founder of the book cri