Not long ago, the ballad genre was Korea's national soundtrack — filling karaoke rooms, topping the charts and etching itself into the country's collective memory. Then came the K-pop boom, and with ...

Lyricist Yang In-ja, 80 years old, and composer Kim Hee-gap, 89 years old, her musical collaborator and life partner, left significant footprints in the history of Korean popular music. Born in ...

Dubbed Korea's "Emperor of Ballads," singer Shin Seung-hun is finally back where he belongs — at the center of the genre he helped define. At 6 p.m. Tuesday, the veteran singer-songwriter will unveil ...