TOKYO, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The Japanese government on Tuesday approved new textbooks, apparently watering down the coercive nature of its wartime wrongdoings and intensifying its sovereignty claim to Dokdo, for use by the country’s elementary school students starting in 2024. Tokyo’s education ministry announced that 149 textbooks have passed its review, a move [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — On August 13, 2019, a special episode of “You Quiz on the Block,” a popular Korean talk show and quiz program, was aired to commemorate Liberation Day and convey the heart-wrenching experiences of Korean patriots who suffered during the independence movement and Japanese colonial period. The show’s hosts, Yoo [...]
SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea seems to have opted for a workable solution to the longstanding row with Japan over how to compensate victims of wartime forced labor as part of efforts to normalize bilateral economic cooperation and bolster trilateral security partnerships involving the United States, experts here said Monday. The Yoon [...]
SEOUL, March 5 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and Japan have tentatively agreed to create a “future youth fund” to sponsor scholarships for students, as part of a deal on settling the issue of compensation for Korean victims of Japan’s wartime forced labor, sources said Sunday. The fund will be jointly formed by the Federation [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The March 1 Independence Movement against Japanese colonial rule in 1919 is an important moment in Korean history and is even enshrined in the country’s constitution. Celebrities’ efforts to raise awareness about this historic event in Korea’s independence movement have been a hot topic. During this year’s March 1 [...]
SEOUL, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Seo Kyung-deok, a publicist and professor at Sungshin Women’s University, has released a video about the life of Albert Wilder Taylor (1875-1948). Albert Taylor was an American businessman and journalist responsible for telling the world about the March 1st Independence Movement and Korean efforts to gain independence from Japanese [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will seek to build a statue of a British journalist in his birthplace to commemorate his activism against Japanese imperialists in the early 20th century, the veterans ministry said Monday. Veterans Minister Park Min-shik unveiled the plan in Britain on Friday (local time) as he met with [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government has purchased a building in the United States that once served as the headquarters of a Korean independence movement group in order to preserve the historical site, officials said Thursday. The veterans ministry said it signed a deal Tuesday (U.S. time) to buy the building [...]
JEJU, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Scores of relics of imperial Japan, which occupied the Korean Peninsula from 1910-1945, still remain scattered here and there on Jeju Island. According to an investigation by the Jeju History and Culture Promotion Agency, a total of 176 stone markers engraved with the Japanese name of the era still [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A local court’s order for Japan to disclose its state assets in South Korea to pay compensation to Korean victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery was aborted due to Tokyo’s refusal to comply, judicial sources said Friday. The Seoul Central District Court on Thursday dismissed the case pertaining to [...]