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 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — On the eve of Jeongwol Daeboreum, the first full moon of the lunar year, communities across South Korea gathered for traditional celebrations, including the centuries-old ritual of Daljip Burning (Sheaf burning). This practice, deeply rooted in Korean folklore, involves setting fire to large structures made of straw and pine branches to [...]
JEJU, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Jeju Island will commemorate the 93rd anniversary of the Jeju Haenyeo Anti-Japanese Movement, the largest women-led independence movement in Korea, with a special ceremony on January 12. The event will honor the courageous haenyeo (female divers) who, in 1932, led mass protests against Japan’s colonial exploitation and ethnic discrimination in [...]
ANDONG, South Korea, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Police will investigate a drama production team from public broadcaster KBS for allegedly hammering nails at a UNESCO World Heritage site to hang a prop, officials said Friday. Gyeongbuk Provincial Police said a complaint was filed earlier in the day by a person known as a citizen [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Following the impeachment of President Yoon Suk-yeol on December 14, the streets around Seoul’s National Assembly Station were crowded with citizens clutching special edition newspapers. These publications, known as “hoewae” in Korean, are rare, emergency editions issued to mark significant events. Headlines such as “Citizens Win,” “President Yoon Impeached,” and [...]