If you are already visiting Gyeongbokgung Palace, there is a free museum inside the same grounds that many travelers walk right past: the National Folk Museum of Korea . The palace shows you how kings lived. This museum shows you how everyone else lived - farmers, merchants, families - and that is the part of Korea most visitors never get to see. Traditional white porcelain jars in the permanent exhibition. Photo: Korea Tourism Organization (KOGL Type 3) Why It Is Worth Your Time Most museums in Seoul focus on royal treasures. The National Folk Museum is different. It is about ordinary daily life: what people ate, how they farmed through the four seasons, how they celebrated a baby's first birthday, how they held weddings and funerals. If you have ever wondered why Koreans still do certain things today - bowing on Lunar New Year, preparing food for ancestral rites, the first-birthday party called doljanchi - this is where the background starts to make sense. Admission is fr...

If you are visiting Korea and want to try Korean fried chicken, Kyochon Chicken is a name worth knowing. Its Original soy garlic chicken is the order I keep coming back to. I usually choose a half-and-half order of Original and spicy Red, but this time I went for a whole chicken in the Original flavor. The brand began in 1991 as Kyochon Tongdak, a small chicken shop in Gumi, North Gyeongsang Province. Its first premises were only about 33 square meters, or 355 square feet, a modest start for what would become a nationwide chain. The name Kyochon refers to a village with a hyanggyo, a traditional Confucian school. Soy sauce and garlic were central to its early menu, and Kyochon Original grew out of that signature combination. According to the brand's official history , its franchise network passed 100 stores in 1999 and 500 in 2002. The company also adopted the name Kyochon F&B in 2002. That journey from a neighborhood chicken shop to a national brand helps explain why its s...

Hangul Worksheet Playground · Free Printable Resources Explore the words in each picture and write Korean consonants and vowels step by step Discover 14 free printable Hangul worksheets from Korea, originally designed for children beginning to learn the Korean alphabet. This picture-based resource also gives families and beginner learners outside Korea a friendly way to explore Hangul, the Korean writing system. The worksheets themselves are in Korean, and this English guide explains how to use them. The set includes 5 vowel pages and 9 consonant pages, with stroke-order guides and related picture words on each page. 5 vowel worksheets 9 consonant worksheets 14 pages in total A4 portrait PDF 5 Vowel Pages 9 Consonant Pages How to Use Download PDF ↓ What Is Included in These Korean Consonants and Vowels Worksheets? These Korean alphabet worksheets group letters with similar shapes so you can compare them, rather than placing just one letter on each page. There are 5 vowel pages, ...

Want a hands-on way to learn the Korean alphabet? This free printable Hangul flashcards PDF pairs letter cards with illustrated Korean vocabulary cards. It includes 70 cards in all : 14 consonants, 21 vowels, and 35 picture words, arranged across 10 A4 landscape pages. The cards themselves use Korean words. To help English-speaking learners, I have listed the English meaning of every pictured word below each page preview. You can use the set with children, in a classroom, or for your own first steps with Hangul. Free PDF · 10 A4 landscape pages · 35 letter cards + 35 picture-word cards Consonant cards Vowel cards Ways to use them Download the PDF Korean consonant flashcards: 14 basic letters The first four pages introduce the basic consonants from ㄱ to ㅎ . Each letter card has a large character with numbered, dotted strokes. The matching pictures help learners connect a Korean word to its opening consonant: 고양이 (cat) begins with ㄱ , and 나비 (butterfly) begins with ㄴ . Swipe through ...

A familiar cup ramen in Korea Walk into a convenience store, supermarket, or tiny neighborhood shop in Korea and you are likely to spot Nongshim’s small shrimp-flavored cup noodles. The Korean name, Saeutang (seh-oo-tahng), refers to shrimp soup. It is one of those everyday products I see almost as often as Shin Ramyun. Korean convenience stores seem to have new cup noodles every time I visit. Many cost more and promise extra toppings, but I am not always convinced they taste better. To me, the appeal of instant ramen is still a quick, affordable meal. Shin Ramyun is the Nongshim cup nearly everyone in Korea knows. This smaller shrimp cup is less famous, yet it quietly stays on the shelf year after year. You do not see much fuss around it; it is simply always there. What is inside this shrimp ramen cup? Under the lid are a compact noodle cake, a few dried toppings, and seasoning. Do not expect the deep flavor of a restaurant seafood soup. The shrimp note is lighter than that. S...