More than 2,000 years ago, a princess from Ayodhya, Suriratna, married Korea’s King Kim Suro and went on to become Queen Heo Hwang-ok. Today, around seven million Koreans trace their lineage to this ...

During the colonial period, the Japanese pillaged Joseon’s resources, banned the use of the Korean language—even going so far in 1939 as to require Koreans to change their personal names to Japanese ...