Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo illustration by Allison Hong / Los Angeles Times; Unsplash) Kim Hyeong-bae, a South Korean linguist, had a problem: how to ...

The Oxford English Dictionary has added eight words drawn from South Korean culture in its latest quarterly update, Oxford Languages announced Wednesday.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. South Korean linguists seek to integrate modern, foreign words into the language while protecting it too, so a committee works out ...

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has added seven new Korean words, including “dalgona” and “maknae”. According to the OED’s website on Tuesday, the words “noraebang,” “hyung,” “jjigae,” “tteokbokki ...

A government panel in South Korea is charged with coming up with Korean equivalents for foreign terms that keep slipping into the language. Among the challenges: Finding ways to say things like ...