Seoul is pronounced "soul" but definitely doesn't look that way. Why?

Is Vietnam East or Southeast Asian? An answer for a controversial question.

A video on the mysterious origins of kombucha. Where is it from?

A video as to why both Koreans and Chinese call themselves han, and why they're different.

Did you know that the word for tea in almost all languages sounds either like tea or cha? Here is a video as to why.

A video on ugui, traditional posthumous portraits painted for the kings of the Ruuchuu Kingdom prior to annexation by Japan in 1879.

The first video in English on the history of the Sakhalar, also known as the Yakuts, a Siberian Turkic group indigenous to Russia's Far East.