SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Activists from an environmental activist group, rallying to urge Lotte World to release a beluga whale kept at its aquarium, have been handed over to the prosecution. On Wednesday, Seoul’s Songpa Police Station announced that it had handed over eight activists from the marine environmental civic group ‘Hot Pink Dolphins’ to [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Defective security cameras and lax discipline led to a Navy unit on the southern island of Jeju failing to detect civic activists intruding into its compound earlier this month, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Sunday, promising to strongly reprimand the officers responsible. On March 7, four activists who [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean animal welfare activists said Thursday they will petition the Constitutional Court next month against the government for not curbing dog meat consumption and slaughterhouses. Members of KARA (Korea Animal Rights Advocates) and the PNR (People for Non-human Rights) said in a news conference the government has infringed [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean activists on Friday demanded Hong Kong police apologize for the recent shooting of a teenager and stop suppressing protesters, voicing support for the democracy protests amid an escalating stand-off between authorities and protesters. Earlier this week, Hong Kong high school student Tsang Chi-kin was severely injured after [...]
JEJU, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government’s effort to build a new international airport on Jeju Island has been making little headway in the face of stubborn resistance from residents and environmental activists. A Jeju resident continued his hunger strike for the 31st consecutive day on Friday in front of the Jeju [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of undocumented immigrant children in South Korea is estimated to exceed 20,000, but their basic rights to education and health are not protected, civic activists said Thursday, calling for swift countermeasures from the government. Unregistered children of foreign migrant workers live all across South Korea after arriving [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean environmental groups on Monday urged Japan to reverse its recent decision to release radioactive water that has accumulated in the Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea after treatment. Korea Radioactive Watch, the Korean Federation For Environmental Movement and other civic groups held a joint news conference in [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Animal activists filed a petition with the office of President Moon Jae-in and held a rally featuring one of Moon’s pet dogs on Tuesday to call for a ban on dog meat consumption on the first of the summer’s three hottest “dog days.” Tuesday is “chobok,” one of 24 seasonal [...]
SEOUL, May 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government has asked activists to refrain from sending anti-North Korea leaflets into the demilitarized zone from May 1 onwards in accordance with the North-South summit agreement. On Monday, the Ministry of Unification stated that it had asked civic groups to stop releasing the leaflets that afternoon. [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Animal rights organizations are demanding that an E-mart pet shop brand called Molly’s Pet Shop stop selling animals in display windows, and change into a pet supply store instead. These organizations including CARE, KARA, the Korean Animal Welfare Association, and Action for Animals gathered in front of E-mart’s headquarters in [...]