Koreana is the Korea Foundation’s quarterly, which is published in 11 languages to promote Korean arts and culture around the world.

The Spanish and French editions followed soon, and as the hallyu (Korean Wave) began to spread at the turn of the new millennium, Koreana responded to the rising global interest in Korean culture by launching Arabic, German, Indonesian, and Russian editions.

Most recently, Vietnamese and Korean editions were made available as webzines to further diversify the channels of intercultural communication with netizens around the world.

In doing so, the magazine has helped people around the world to appreciate the universality and distinctiveness of Korean culture and also contributed to the mission of the Korea Foundation: “Connecting People, Bridging the World.”[1] Koreana is distributed to universities, libraries, museums, research centers and various other cultural and art institutions in about 150 countries.

The articles are extremely informative and the photographs are beautiful.” [2] In 2017, Koreana marked its 30th anniversary by publishing a first-ever Korean language print issue (see inset photo).