Like its neighbors, South Korea also gets its fair share of pink-tinted magic come springtime. Locally known as beot-kkot ...

Plenty of South Korea’s Buddhist temples have cherry trees on their grounds ... and they’re not so much fringed with as surrounded by pink at the height of cherry blossom season.

Despite lingering cold snaps and unseasonal snowfall, the first signs of spring are emerging in South Korea. Plum blossoms, often seen as the harbingers of the season, are beginning to bloom amid the ...