GWANGJU, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean court ordered Nippon Coke & Engineering on Tuesday to compensate Korean victims for their forced labor at Japanese mines during World War II. The Gwangju District Court ordered the Japanese firm to pay compensation ranging from 13 million won (US$9,400) to 100 million won to each [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Professor Seo Kyoung-duk of Sungshin Women’s University, in collaboration with fashion company Lakai Korea, has released a multilingual video celebrating the contributions of Jeju Island’s female divers to the defense of the Dokdo Islands, he announced on July 4. The four-minute video, titled “The Unsung Heroes of Dokdo: Jeju’s Haenyeo,” [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has held a mass anti-U.S. rally in Pyongyang to mark this week’s anniversary of the outbreak of the 1950-53 Korean War, state media reported Wednesday. More than 100,000 people attended the rally held at the May Day Stadium on Tuesday and the stadium was “full of the [...]
WASHINGTON, Jun. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Senior South Korean and U.S. officials on Tuesday underscored the strength of their countries’ steadfast alliance amid shared concerns over a deepening military alignment between North Korea and Russia, as they marked the 74th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War. South Korean Ambassador to the U.S. Cho [...]
SEOUL & ROMA, Jun. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – A “Statue of Peace” commemorating victims of wartime sexual slavery was unveiled on the Mediterranean coast of Sardinia on June 22, immediately igniting a diplomatic dispute. The statue, erected in the town of Stintino, faced challenges from its inception, reflecting the ongoing tensions surrounding these memorials worldwide [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A girl statue symbolizing the victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery, euphemistically called “comfort women,” will be erected in Italy for the first time, a local activist group said Wednesday. The statue, dubbed a Statue of Peace or comfort women statue, will be unveiled to the public in Stintino, [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The foreign ministry on Wednesday dismissed Japan’s renewed protest over Seoul’s routine maritime survey near the East Sea islets of Dokdo, emphasizing a firm stance against “unjust claims.” On Tuesday, Japan’s foreign ministry lodged a complaint through diplomatic channels, demanding an immediate halt to the maritime survey conducted by [...]
JEJU, Jun. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – For the next few weeks, visitors to the Haenyeo Museum on the resort island of Jeju can glimpse into the vanishing world of the region’s celebrated free-diving women through the lens of Peter Ashley Lee, a 42-year-old photographer. Lee’s exhibition, “The Last Mermaid,” which opened on June 4 and runs [...]
BUSAN, Jun. 4 (Korea Bizwire) –A young student in Busan has become the target of online abuse after being lauded for exposing a misleading video game that distorted the 1980 pro-democracy uprising in the city of Gwangju, prompting a police investigation. The Yeonje Police Station in Busan said on June 3 that it was investigating [...]
SUWON, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s Gyeonggi province is launching a “Delivery of Remembrance Flowers” campaign ahead of the August 14 commemoration day for Korean victims of Japanese military sexual slavery during World War II. The campaign calls on 139 selected participants from across the nation to deliver flowers to the same number of [...]