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  🏛️ National Museum of Korea Ranks 3rd Worldwide with 6.5 Million Visitors in 2025 Seoul now stands beside Paris and Vatican City on the global museum map. The National Museum of Korea welcomed more than 6.5 million visitors in 2025. That result placed it third in a major worldwide art-museum attendance survey. The number is impressive, but the reason behind the growth tells an even bigger story about Korean culture. 🏛️ A Record-Breaking Rise The National Museum of Korea recorded 6,507,483 visitors in 2025 , rising from approximately 3.8 million in 2024. This was an increase of more than 70 percent in a single year and one of the largest attendance gains reported by The Art Newspaper . In the publication’s 2025 visitor survey, the museum ranked behind only the Louvre Museum in Paris and the Vatican Museums. The Louvre attracted slightly more than 9 million visitors, while the Vatican Museums received about 6.9 million. The National Museum of Korea followed with 6.5 million, p...

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The History of Gukbap When you are cold, tired, hungry, and perhaps slightly damaged by Korean soju, what should you eat? The answer is usually gukbap . The word is very simple. Guk means soup, and bap means cooked rice. So gukbap literally means “soup and rice.” Traditionally, however, it usually referred to rice placed inside hot soup rather than soup and rice served as completely separate dishes. In historical documents, a similar dish was often called tangban , written with the Chinese characters 湯飯 : tang means hot soup, and ban means cooked rice or a meal. ( 한국민족문화대백과사전 ) But gukbap is much more than rice floating in soup. It tells us how Korean markets developed, how ordinary people traveled, how cities grew, and how war and poverty created new regional foods. In other words, this bowl is almost a Korean history textbook—only much warmer and more delicious. 1. Did gukbap begin in ancient Korea? The exact person, place, and date of gukbap’s invention are not known . Koreans ...

The Asiatic black bear is the only bear that naturally occurs on the Korean Peninsula. It is a medium‑sized black bear with a distinctive white or cream “V”/crescent patch on its chest, which is why Koreans call it “half‑moon bear” (반달가슴곰). In Korea it is classified as an endangered wild animal (Class I) and is also a Natural Monument (No. 329). How many bears are in the wild now? By the late 1900s, hunting and habitat loss had reduced the wild population to only about 5 bears in South Korea. A government re‑introduction program began in 2004, releasing Russian Far East bears that share the same genetic lineage. By 2024, the Korea National Park Service reported about 86 wild Asiatic black bears living mainly in Jirisan National Park. In addition, there are still hundreds of captive bears (around 322 bears on 20 farms as reported recently) used historically for bear farming. Where do they live? Today, almost all wild bears in South Korea are concentrated in Jirisan National Park and nea...

  Eating tteokguk also means to grow a year older with a common saying: “One needs to eat a bowl of tteokguk on Lunar New Year’s Day morning to grow a year older.” Lee Yu-ra, 31, who lives in Daegu, feels that a new year has actually started only after eating a bowl of tteokguk with her family. read more