It was one of the affiliates of the National Theater of Korea until 1999, when it separated to independently reestablish itself in the Seoul Arts Center in the following year.
Overseas tours have included performances in Egypt and Israel in 1997, China in 2000 and 2001, Japan in 2002, and more recent trips to Russia.
One of the prima ballerinas of the company, Joo-won Kim was the winner of the BENOIS de la DANSE prize 2006.
The Korea National Ballet has introduced the world artists' masterpieces such as Boris Eifman's Musagète, Requiem, Bravo Figaro, Tchaikovsky: The Mystery of Life and Death, Yury Grigorovich's Spartacus, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, Raymonda, Jean-Christophe Maillot's Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella, Do’ve La Luna, Mats Ek's Carmen and Michel Fokine's Chunhyang L'Epreuve d'Amour, Les Sylphides, George Balanchine’s Symphony in C, Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, Fernand Nault's Carmina Burana, Byung-nam Moon’s Prince Hodong, Marius Petipa’s Giselle, Le Corsaire, La Bayadère, Alexandre Gorsky's Don Quixote, Philippe Alonso’s La Fille Mal Gardée, Rudolf Nureyev's Sleeping Beauty, etc.
The Ballet with Commentary created by artistic director Tae-ji Choi was newly established in 1997.