SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean director Hong Sang-soo’s new film, “A Traveler’s Needs,” will compete in the upcoming Berlin International Film Festival next month, the event’s website showed Monday. The film by Hong was among the 19 full-length titles announced on the website to compete in the 74th Berlin International Film Festival, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Performers of Korean traditional instruments played Jongmyo Jeryeak, a royal ancestral ritual music, at the Berliner Philharmonie in Berlin, a home to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, on Monday (local time). As part of Musikfest Berlin, 86 members of the National Gugak Center performed the royal ancestral music and dance [...]
Zurich, Switzerland, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Hitachi Energy has won an order from Berliner Verkehrsbe-triebe (BVG), Germany’s biggest municipal public transportation company, to supply its Grid-eMotion™ Fleet smart charging infrastructure to help BVG transition to sustainable mobility in Berlin, the country’s capital. Hitachi Energy will provide a complete Grid-eMotion Fleet grid-to-plug charging infrastructure solution [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Second-generation Asian immigrants in Germany held a vigil in front of the Statue of Peace in Berlin on Tuesday (local time) to remember the victims of the recent deadly shootings in Atlanta and urge the public to put a stop to hate crimes against Asians. Hosted by local civic [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — An Israeli law professor, noted for his effort to rectify a Harvard professor’s disputed paper on the 1923 massacre of Koreans in Japan, has said that he visited a statue symbolizing Korean victims of Tokyo’s wartime sexual slavery earlier this week. In an email to Yonhap News Agency, Alon [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Elderly women in Berlin are once again stepping up to protect the Statue of Peace. Omas Gegen Rechts, a German civic group, held a rally in front of the Statue of Peace in the German capital on Friday (local time), joined by some 50 senior women and Koreans. The [...]
BERLIN, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A Berlin district council has passed a resolution seeking to keep a statue of a girl symbolizing the victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery permanently installed at a public site, officials and reports said Wednesday. The resolution, approved by a majority vote at Berlin’s Mitte district parliament on Tuesday [...]
BERLIN/SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A Berlin district council has adopted a resolution urging municipal authorities to retract a removal order for a statue symbolizing victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery, reports and officials said Saturday. The council of Mitte Borough, a central Berlin district, voted overwhelmingly in favor of the resolution in a [...]
BERLIN/SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A Berlin district office has withheld its order to remove a statue symbolizing victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery following protests from activists and citizens. The Mitte district office said in a statement Tuesday that the order to remove “The Statue of Peace” by Wednesday was no longer applicable [...]
SEOUL/BERLIN, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Civic activists based in Germany are planning to apply for an injunction Monday against Berlin city authorities’ removal order for a statue erected in the German capital of a girl symbolizing Korean victims of wartime sexual slavery, informed local sources said. The injunction application will be filed by Korea [...]