(PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap) The museum clarified that the widely recognized 12-dish royal table became prominent during the late Joseon period under King Gojong and King Sunjong. Before then ...

Jongmyo is a shrine housing the spirit tablets of the former kings and queens of the Joseon Dynasty. The shrine is a symbolic structure that conveys the legitimacy of the royal family, where the king ...

He overthrew the Goryeo dynasty and founded a new dynasty, Joseon. As the first King Taejo of Joseon, he chose Hanyang (present-day Seoul)—judged to be a propitious spot according to the principles of ...

When the Joseon King Jeongjo moved his father's tomb to Suwon at the end of the 18th century, he surrounded it with strong defensive works, laid out according to the precepts of an influential ...

A mini-musical rethinking King Gojong’s efforts to save his country from Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule will follow. Gojong is the 26th Joseon king and the first emperor of the Daehan Empire.