“I got the idea from murals in old Goguryeo tombs,” the opening ceremony's executive creative director, Song Seung-whan, said in a press briefing on Saturday. “Through the scene, I wanted to ...

I recently visited the ancient Korean kingdom known as Goguryeo (37 B.C.-668). The Northeast Asian History Foundation, established to keep Korean history from being obscured or subsumed by China’s ...

As it flutters its wide sleeves, It now looks like a bird from the east. The above is the poem "Goguryeo" written by Chinese poet Li Po (702~762 AD) after watching a Goguryeo dance performance in ...

Surrounding them are ivory-colored lotus petals whose tips blush in red. The paintings on the walls of the Goguryeo Kingdom royal tombs in North Korea are stunningly beautiful, even in photographs.

A stone monument from the ancient Korean kingdom of Goguryeo has recently been discovered in Jian, northeastern China, in what could be “a major archaeological landmark,” a South Korean ...

A golden seal, believed to date back to Korea’s ancient Goguryeo kingdom (37BC-AD668), fetched an astounding HK$10.8 million (US$1.39 million) at a major Hong Kong auction. This amount surpassed ...

This annual exercise was named for a famous Korean general from the Goguryeo Kingdom who is symbol of victory against all odds. From the first century BC to much of the first century, Korea was in ...

Described as the son of the heavens, Jumong was the founding king of Goguryeo, which eventually became the largest dynasty in Korean history. Also known as the Holy King of the East, mythological ...