SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A monument marking Germany’s support for South Korea during the 1950-53 Korean War was unveiled in Berlin earlier this week, the veterans ministry said Thursday, marking the first one of its kind in the European country. The unveiling ceremony for the pair of bronze sculptures, commemorating West Germany’s dispatch [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Veterans Minister Kang Jung-ai has posthumously conferred a medal to a late French politician, Louis Marin (1876-1960), to honor his support for Korea’s independence from Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule, the ministry said Wednesday. Kang presented the Order of Merit for National Foundation to Louis Dominici, the president of the [...]
JEONGEUP, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) – The city of Jeongeup in North Jeolla Province announced on May 2 that it will host the “3rd World Revolutionary Cities Alliance Conference” from May 9 to 11 at the Donghak Peasant Revolution Memorial Park and its surrounding areas. Since 2022, Jeongeup has been inviting major revolutionary cities from around [...]
TOKYO, May 1 (Korea Bizwire) – A memorial honoring Korean workers during Japan’s colonial occupation, which was dismantled by authorities in Gunma Prefecture in January, has been digitally resurrected through an augmented reality (AR) application, according to a report by the Asahi Shimbun on April 30. The “AR Korean Workers’ Memorial” app allows users to virtually [...]
SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) –A middle-aged woman stands on a rocky mountaintop, gazing out at layers of mist-covered, rugged peaks stretching before her. This scene is captured in the self-portrait, “Waves,” by Korean embroidery artisan Lee Jang-bong (1917-2016), who borrowed the background from “The Sea of Fog,” an oil painting by German artist [...]
GWANGJU, Apr. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Terry Anderson, a former Associated Press correspondent who risked his life to report on the Gwangju Democratic Uprising in South Korea in 1980, exposing the brutal crackdown to the world, died on April 21 in Greenwood Lake, N.Y. He was 76. According to the Journalists Association of Korea’s May 18 [...]
MOKPO, Apr. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – As South Korea commemorates the 479th anniversary of the birth of Admiral Yi Sun-sin on April 28, a groundbreaking study revealing the effective firing range of the iconic turtle ship’s cannons has drawn significant attention from scholars. This discovery may help unravel the combat secrets behind Admiral Yi’s famed naval [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) –South Korea expressed “deep disappointment and regret” Sunday over Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida sending a ritual offering to a war shrine seen as a symbol of Japan’s militaristic past. Earlier in the day, Kishida sent the ceremonial tree to the Yasukuni Shrine, while Economic Revitalization Minister Yoshitaka Shindo, [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) –South Korea lodged a strong protest against Japan on Friday after Tokyo approved new school textbooks that downplay the coercive nature of its wartime atrocities and reinforce its territorial claims to Dokdo. The foreign ministry also called in Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Koichi Aiboshi to deliver the formal [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean War veterans from Commonwealth nations will revisit South Korea next week to mark the 73rd anniversary of the Battle of Gapyeong and other commemorative events, the veterans ministry said Friday. The Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs said it has invited six veterans and 15 family members from [...]