SEOUL/TOKYO, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea lodged a strong protest against Japan on Tuesday over Tokyo’s renewed territorial claim to Dokdo, a set of rocky islets in the East Sea, in its latest annual diplomatic book. The claim, strongly disputed by South Korea that has long maintained effective control of Dokdo with the permanent [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The remains of a Korean independence fighter, who campaigned in Europe and the United States against Japan’s 1910-45 colonization, returned home from New York on Monday, a century after his death. A ceremony for the repatriation and burial of Hwang Ki-hwan’s remains took place at the Daejeon National Cemetery [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Growing concerns are being raised over the Japanese government’s apparent “regression in historical awareness.” This issue was highlighted once again with the approval of elementary school textbooks that contain deteriorated descriptions of forced labor and Dokdo, which may pose a significant obstacle to future Korea-Japan relations. Another issue that [...]
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 [...]