Chinese textile firms are increasingly using North Korean factories to take advantage of cheaper labor across the border, industry sources said. The clothes made in North Korea are labeled “Made in ...

This year in April, I received a bojagi, or traditional Korean wrapping cloth, as a present from the Korean organization, Indonesia. In earlier times, the cloth was made from leftover textiles to wrap ...

DANDONG, China (Reuters) - Chinese textile firms are increasingly using North Korean factories to take advantage of cheaper labour across the border, traders and businesses in the border city of ...

In North Korea, an impoverished country where temperatures drop below freezing in winter, people are encouraged to wear clothes made from stone, a new report details. North Korea's vinalon is made ...

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SEOUL, South Korea, Jan. 30 (UPI) --North Korea appears to be running clothing factories in Kaesong Industrial Complex, an inter-Korean zone that was supposed to have shut down two years ago. Radio ...

For more than a thousand years Koreans have been vat-dyeing fabrics and Hanji with indigo dye, one of the oldest natural sources of blue dye, made with the leaves of the indigo plant. The indigo plant ...

Internationally-renowned South Korean artist Kim Sooja will present a new “bottari” series at the Korean Pavilion of the Venice Biennale this year. Kim has been chosen as the sole artist to represent ...