SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – A Seoul court of appeals again reversed a district court ruling on compensation for South Korean victims of Japan’s wartime forced labor Thursday, ordering Japan’s Nishimatsu Construction Co. to compensate five victims. The Seoul High Court ruled that the Japanese company has to pay 20 million won (US$15,000) to [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s media regulator said Tuesday encrypted messaging app Telegram has complied with its request to remove certain deepfake pornographic content on its platform and apologized for its response to digital sex crimes. Numerous chat rooms suspected of creating and distributing deepfake porn content with doctored photos of Korean [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Women’s rights groups and university human rights clubs gathered in Seoul’s Gangnam Station area on August 29 to denounce the recent surge in ‘deepfake’ sex crimes and demand prompt action from authorities. The Seoul Women’s Association and other organizations held a press conference near Exit 10 of Gangnam Station, urging [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Police will carry out an intensive crackdown on deepfake sex images as a recent series of such crimes stoked fears that any woman could fall victim, officials said Tuesday. During the seven-month crackdown set to begin Wednesday, police will aggressively hunt down those who produce and spread such images, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The family of a Chinese man who died at an immigration detention center filed a lawsuit seeking state compensation Thursday, claiming their loved one died because he did not receive proper treatment for chronic illnesses. The ethnic Korean from China, 43 at the time, died on Jan. 1, just [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) –Lee Yong-soo, an outspoken South Korean victim of Japan’s wartime military sexual slavery, urged the government on Wednesday to proactively intervene in securing compensation from Japan. The 96-year-old victim made the call in an interview with Yonhap News Agency during an event marking the memorial day for victims of [...]
GWANGJU in GYEONGGI, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – In a poignant ceremony held four days before the official Comfort Women Memorial Day, about 200 people gathered at the House of Sharing in Gwangju, Gyeonggi Province, to honor the victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery system. The event, themed “Yellow Butterfly – A Promise to the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The death of a lone welfare recipient from heatstroke after being turned away from 14 hospitals has sparked outrage in South Korea, exposing deep-rooted issues in the nation’s healthcare and social welfare systems. The incident, which occurred on July 30 in Seoul’s Ssangmun-dong district but only recently came to light, [...]
GIMHAE, YANGSAN & MIRYANG, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – With a relentless heatwave gripping South Korea, authorities are scrambling to protect foreign workers in the manufacturing hubs of Gimhae, Yangsan, and Miryang from heat-related illnesses. According to the Yangsan branch of the Ministry of Employment and Labor, as of late June, 13,309 foreign workers were employed [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The mayor of Berlin, Kai Wegner, who has publicly opposed the continued presence of a statue commemorating victims of wartime sexual slavery, known as “comfort women,” has now reportedly exerted pressure to cut funding for the civic group responsible for erecting the memorial, according to local media reports. German [...]