Starting from the 18th century, records indicate a shift in examination practices. While only the combined test scores of the assigned seven examiners were kept during the 17th century, each wrote down their own scores in the 18th century, resulting in a more thorough and fair assessment, Moon said. Three distinct types of gwageo exams featured varying sets of oral questions. For example, mugw...

South Korea's crackdown on protests it sees as unlawful is materializing amid escalating tensions between the conservative Yoon Suk Yeol administration and local labor unions voicing disapproval of Yoon's union-busting drive. On Thursday, the police detained three demonstrators at around 8:50 p.m. in front of the Supreme Court of Korea in Seocho-gu, Seoul, for staging a protest without providing...

Former US Vice President and environmentalist Al Gore called for bigger climate ambitions on the part of South Korea and the US at the “Alliance Plus” forum hosted by Herald Corp. on Wednesday in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the two countries’ alliance and the founding of The Korea Herald. Korea and the US are already working on clean energy technologies that are driving what Gore re...