SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The first video footage showing women presumed to be Korean sex slaves for Japanese troops during World War II was discovered in the United States, the Seoul city government said Wednesday. The human rights center at Seoul National University unveiled the video filmed in 1944 of seven female captives [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A number of municipal governments in South Korea are facing criticism from civic groups for planning to hold farewell and welcome events for the U.S. armed forces stationed locally, amid plans to reshuffle the locations of American military bases in the country. A Cheonan-based community organization issued a statement [...]
GEORGIA, AMERICA Jun. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite strong Japanese opposition, with one senior Atlanta-based Japanese diplomat implying the victims of Japan’s wartime sex slavery were ‘paid prostitutes’, the latest statue in memory of the so-called comfort women is set to be unveiled Friday in the city of Brookhaven, Georgia. It’s the third statue to [...]
WASHINGTON, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean President Moon Jae-in and U.S. President Donald Trump were set to hold bilateral talks Friday over a wide range of issues that will likely include ways to strengthen the countries’ alliance and their joints efforts to rid North Korea of nuclear weapons. The first bilateral summit between [...]
WASHINGTON, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean President Moon Jae-in and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump were set to meet for the first time during a dinner hosted on Thursday, one day before they sit for official talks. The South Korean president arrived here Wednesday on a four-day visit. Moon was set to begin [...]
INCHEON, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) – International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach on Thursday expressed his support for a South Korean proposal for a unified Korean delegation to next year’s Winter Olympics here, saying the idea is “in the spirit of the Olympism.” Bach arrived in South Korea to attend Friday’s closing ceremony of [...]
SEOUL AIR BASE, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean President Moon Jae-in headed to the United States on Wednesday for a summit with his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump, which will likely focus on how to rein in North Korea’s growing nuclear and missile capabilities, as well as forming a personal relationship to last their [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea Tuesday denounced the Japanese consul general based in Atlanta, the United States, for his recent remarks disparaging Korean women who were forced into sexual service for front-line Japanese soldiers during World War II. In a recent media interview, Takashi Shinozuka, the consul general of Japan in Atlanta, [...]
SEOUL, June 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will not reverse the planned deployment of an advanced U.S. missile defense system, its top diplomat said Monday, reiterating the government’s stance apparently aimed at easing uncertainty surrounding the agreement with the United States reached by the previous government. “As my president himself made it clear on [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The foreign ministry plans to launch a special team to look into the controversial agreement signed with Japan on its wartime sexual enslavement of Korean women, a ministry official said Friday. The move is in line with President Moon Jae-in’s campaign pledge to review the agreement signed in December [...]