SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean citizens and civic groups on Friday condemned Japan’s decision to remove their country of a list of trusted trading partners, calling on the Korean government to take an active step to tackle the trade row. Earlier in the day, Japan’s Cabinet approved a proposal to strip South [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite what Japan cites as reasons for its curbs on exports to South Korea, the country may have hidden motives that include an attempt to evade responsibility for its past wrongdoings, officials here say. On July 4, Tokyo implemented tougher restrictions on South Korea-bound shipments of three materials — [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Calls for a boycott of Japan-made goods in South Korea are expected to come to a boil as Tokyo went ahead with its threat to widen controls over exports of materials by removing Seoul from a list of trusted trade partners despite repeated calls to scrap the move. A [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and Japan decided Friday to delist each other as trusted trading partners, sending their trade and diplomatic row spiraling into an economic war, after Tokyo rejected Seoul’s repeated appeals for a negotiated resolution. Japan first removed South Korea from its whitelist of reliable countries earlier in the [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Thousands of protesters held a candlelight vigil in central Seoul on Saturday denouncing Japan for imposing export restrictions on South Korea and demanding an apology from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. About 5,000 activists representing 596 civic groups and citizens held candles in the northern part of the Gwanghwamun Square [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Eight out of 10 South Koreans are reluctant to buy Japanese-made products as public sentiment toward the neighboring country worsens following Tokyo’s move earlier this month to toughen rules on exports of semiconductor-related materials to South Korea, according to a survey released Friday. The survey, conducted by pollster Gallup [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Harry Harris visited a national cemetery in the southwestern city of Gwangju on Monday to pay homage to the Asian country’s fallen pro-democracy fighters. In his first visit to the National Cemetery for the May 18th Democratic Uprising since taking office a year ago, [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid a tentative truce in the U.S.-China trade war, another potentially calamitous conflict is looming between two other key players in the global economy and regional security — South Korea and Japan — with trade weaponized as well. Often prickly Seoul-Tokyo relations are at the worst level since the [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The new legislation that came into effect on Tuesday that prohibits harassment in the workplace is expected by many to put a stop to verbal abuse, ostracism, and other malpractices. The controversy over what constitutes harassment in the workplace, however, is likely to continue. For instance, asking male employees [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A minor ultra-right party took down its protest tents at a public square in central Seoul early Tuesday just before city officials arrived there to remove them. The Our Republican Party, however, said it would return to Gwanghwamun Square soon to continue their campaign to press for a special [...]