SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea launched a project Monday to excavate the remains of a presumed South African pilot killed during the 1950-53 Korean War, Seoul’s defense ministry said. The project, which runs through April 11, aims to find the remains of a South African Air Force pilot presumed to have been [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Several Southeast Asian airlines have come under fire for referring to Dokdo, a South Korean territory, as ‘Liancourt Rocks’ on in-flight map services. The term, originating from the name of a French whaling ship, is often used by Japan in an effort to undermine South Korea’s sovereignty claims. Seo Kyoung-Duk, [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The defense ministry said Monday it began an annual project to recover the remains of soldiers killed during the 1950-53 Korean War, seeking to find more than 220 missing service members this year. Since 2000, the ministry has been working to excavate and identify the remains of fallen soldiers [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The trial of a Japanese right-wing politician accused of defacing a statue honoring World War II comfort women continues to face delays after 13 years, with the defendant failing to appear in court for the 27th time. Suzuki Nobuyuki, 60, was absent from his first scheduled trial at the Seoul [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea on Monday urged Japan to investigate and apologize to Korean victims killed in the U.S. firebombing of Tokyo in 1945, near the end of World War II, a day before Japan is set to mourn the victims of the devastating air raid. The demand was issued by [...]
BERLIN, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) – A girl statue symbolizing victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery will be installed at a church in Germany next week, two years after it was removed from the nearby University of Kassel, where it was first erected, a civic organization said Saturday. The statue will be installed at the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — As U.S. users migrate en masse to the Chinese social media platform Rednote, formerly known as Xiaohongshu, allegations that South Korea is “stealing Chinese culture” have proliferated, raising concerns over misinformation and rising tensions between online communities. Seo Kyoung-Duk, a professor at Sungshin Women’s University, revealed on February 19 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The defense ministry said Tuesday it will seek to recover the remains of more than 200 soldiers killed during the 1950-53 Korean War this year as part of an ongoing project to find and identify missing service members. Since 2000, the ministry has been working to recover the remains [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Gil Won-ok, a former sex slave for Japanese troops who campaigned to raise awareness of the World War II atrocity, died Sunday, the gender equality ministry said. She was 97. Gil was 13 years old when she was taken from her home in Pyongyang, now the capital of North [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea demanded during inter-Korean talks in 1990 that South Korea dismantle a barricade it had installed along their border, calling it “a disgrace” to the Korean people, according to an official dossier declassified Thursday. The information was disclosed in the unification ministry’s official documents recording inter-Korean talks held [...]