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Out of Eden Walk: An untold history of the US presence in Korea

October 4, 2024Out of Eden Walk

In host Marco Werman’s latest conversation with National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek, Salopek arrives at the shores of Incheon in South Korea. He explores an old fort there connected to the US invasion of South Korea in 1871 — a history largely unknown by many in the US and one that impacted the Korean Peninsula’s history for decades to follow.

Yoo In-sik in his repair shop in Seoul. Yoo was one of South Korea's first Winter Paralympians.

A Korean Paralympic skier says other skiers cheer him on now. It didn’t used to be that way.

March 9, 2018Sports

Won Hyung-joon leads the Lindenbaum Festival Orchestra and hopes one day to perform together with North Korean musicians.

Why ‘Arirang’ is the perfect song for a divided Korea

February 8, 2018Music

Korea's Godfather of Rock Shin Joong-hyun got his start as a teenage guitarist at the Yongsan Garrison in Seoul. Now the US military base is closing.

The US military’s Yongsan Garrison leaves a mixed legacy in Seoul

December 22, 2017Culture

Sook Ei and George Lampman met at the US embassy in Seoul in the months before the start of the Korean War.

They got married in Seoul and a week later, China invaded

December 14, 2017Conflict

A year after South Korea passed an anti-corruption law, some businesses say it goes too far

November 29, 2017Business

South Korea’s sweeping anti-graft law is meant to eliminate corruption, but some Koreans say it’s cutting into the country’s gift-giving tradition.

Boy on horse in carousel, looking at camera. Old, scanned photo

On being Korean in America in the time of the ‘Axis of Evil’ and ‘Rocket Man’

November 6, 2017Conflict

This is how Ju-Hyun Park learned to distance himself from being Korean in America.

A South Korean policeman takes part in an anti-terror drill as part of the Ulchi Freedom Guardian exercise in Seoul, South Korea, August 22, 2017.

South Koreans used to brush off talk of war. Now, they’re getting worried.

November 2, 2017Conflict

In South Korea, people are starting to talk with family members about what would happen if war broke out between the US and North Korea.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un guides a target-striking contest of the special operation forces of the Korean People's Army (KPA).

South Korea’s creating a special military unit to assassinate Kim Jong-un

September 14, 2017Conflict

In an unusual move, the plan was announced publicly.

A model demonstrates a Samsung Electronics' new smartphone Galaxy S7 during its launching ceremony.

Samsung dream jobs are running out for young, overeducated South Koreans

May 25, 2017Jobs

Why are South Korea’s new graduates having so much trouble finding work? Some say it’s because they only want to work for big conglomerates.