SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea on Tuesday expressed hope for a resolution over a Japanese local government’s decision to remove the memorial stone for Korean victims of Japan’s wartime forced labor from a public park. Japanese media reported earlier this week that the authorities of Gunma Prefecture plan to remove the memorial [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea’s state-run broadcasting station on Wednesday aired a map that highlights only the northern part of the Korean Peninsula in red after its leader vowed to no longer seek reconciliation and unification with South Korea. In the initial segment of a program broadcast on Pyongyang’s state-run Korean Central [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Opposition leader Lee Jae-myung returned to work Wednesday, 15 days after he was stabbed in a knife attack and underwent surgery. “It feels new coming to the National Assembly and meeting the press,” Lee, chairman of the main opposition Democratic Party (DP), said to reporters upon his arrival at [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea is pressing ahead with measures to disband its inter-Korean organizations, apparently stopping a radio station previously used to send encrypted messages to its spies in South Korea. As of Saturday, the North appears to have stopped broadcasting the state-run Pyongyang Radio and cut off access to its [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – In a noteworthy development announced Thursday by Seoul’s unification ministry, responsible for inter-Korean affairs, South Korea is set to launch its first annual global survey this year to assess awareness regarding the potential unification with North Korea. The survey, spanning various countries including the United States, Japan, Germany, and [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The National Assembly was set to pass a special bill banning dog meat consumption Tuesday, paving the way for a legal ban on the practice that has fallen out of favor in recent decades. The ruling People Power Party (PPP) and the main opposition Democratic Party (DP) have jointly [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The opposition-led National Assembly on Tuesday passed a special bill on the launch of a committee to reopen an investigation into a deadly 2022 crowd crush in Seoul’s Itaewon district. The bill, approved at a plenary meeting, aims to provide support to the victims and their bereaved family members [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – The risk of accidental clashes between the two Korea has risen as buffer zones created under a 2018 inter-Korean military agreement became invalid following North Korea’s conducting of live-fire drills near the western maritime border. Tension has escalated after North Korea fired around 350 rounds of artillery shells in [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government has revised its regulations to prevent individuals who own high-value cars, such as those from Ferrari and Mercedes-Benz, from residing in public rental housing. This move aims to curb the trend of so-called ‘fake low-income’ individuals occupying housing meant for those in genuine need. According [...]
PAJU, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – In the tranquil village of Daeseong-dong, the only civilian settlement within South Korea’s Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), a heartwarming scene unfolded on the morning of January 5, starkly contrasting with the simmering tensions nearby. As North Korea conducted coastal artillery fire close to the Northern Limit Line (NLL) in the [...]