Activists demand that Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba pay tribute at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo during a rally at the shrine on Aug. 15, 2025, on the anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II. (Image courtesy of Yonhap) SEOUL, Aug. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea expressed deep regret Friday after Japanese Prime Minister [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul-led action plan for the capacity building of developing economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) was approved at a meeting of senior APEC officials held to prepare the upcoming APEC summit in South Korea, the foreign ministry said Friday. The five-step Capacity Building Need Initiative (CBNI) for [...]
BUSAN, Aug. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — In a move seen as both scientific and symbolic, South Korea has published the world’s first complete genome sequence of the extinct Dokdo sea lion (Dokdo Ganchi or Dokdo Kangchi) —commonly known in the West as the “Japanese sea lion”—while using the name “Dokdo sea lion” in a peer-reviewed international [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s nuclear regulator has warned that rapidly warming seawater — used to cool reactors — could force as many as eight reactors offline within the next 10 years unless cooling capacity is improved. At a meeting on August 14, the Nuclear Safety and Security Commission received a report [...]
UIJEONGBU, Aug. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean appeals court has upheld fines for two marriage brokers who illegally shared personal information of Vietnamese women with male clients via KakaoTalk, ruling the act violated the country’s marriage brokerage law. On August 15, the Uijeongbu District Court dismissed the appeals of two individuals, identified as [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — President Lee Jae Myung spoke by phone with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Thursday and discussed ways to expand cooperation in trade, infrastructure and shipbuilding, Lee’s office said. In their first conversation since Lee took office in early June, the two leaders noted that South Korea has become [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The trade minister met with the Japanese ambassador to South Korea on Thursday and discussed ways to strengthen the countries’ economic partnership amid growing uncertainties in the global trade environment, officials said. Trade Minister Yeo Han-koo met with Amb. Koichi Mizushima in Seoul earlier in the day, as President [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign Minister Cho Hyun held a phone conversation with his Jordanian counterpart, Ayman Safadi, to discuss cooperation and current affairs, including the situation in Gaza, the ministry said Thursday. The two top diplomats exchanged views on bilateral relations and the political situation in the Middle East, and affirmed their [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — President Lee Jae Myung on Thursday vowed to address long-standing grievances of Korean women forced into sexual slavery for the old Japanese army during World War II, saying that he would spare no efforts to restore the victims’ “honor and dignity.” According to historians, up to 200,000 women, mostly [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The nominee to head the country’s antitrust watchdog, the Fair Trade Commission, pledged Thursday to make every effort to create a fair and healthy market environment. Ju Biung-ghi, an economics professor at Seoul National University, made the remarks upon arriving at the office of his confirmation hearing preparation team, [...]