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 [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean human rights organization has strongly condemned the Japanese government’s recent assertion in its annual diplomatic report that the issue of Korean women who were forced into sexual slavery for Japanese troops during World War II has been resolved. In a statement, the Korea Council for Justice and [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Approximately 1,700 South Korean religious people were massacred by North Korean military and other hostile forces around the time of the 1950-53 Korean War, a state truth panel said Wednesday. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission said it has identified a list of about 1,700 religious figures massacred across the [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – As controversy swirled over the global circulation of an online slot machine game featuring the revered Korean naval commander Admiral Yi Sun-sin, the Korea Communications Standards Commission vowed to actively monitor and review such offerings to prevent their proliferation. The commission first requested that platform operators like YouTube enforce self-regulation [...]