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 The Mitte district office said in a statement Tuesday that the order to remove “The Statue of Peace” by Wednesday was no longer applicable [...]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 [...]
SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Last Friday, the front page of Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany’s leading daily newspaper, covered the painful story of a Korean student couple. The article shed light on the racist violence that the couple suffered on the subway in Berlin on April 27. Lee Se-jin and his wife, Kim Hyun-eum, suffered [...]
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — LogicBio Therapeutics, Inc., a gene-therapy company with a mission to develop cures for early-onset life-threatening diseases, announced today that its company co-founder, Dr. Adi Barzel, will present new data from its genome-editing platform during the 25th Annual European Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (ESGCT) Congress in two [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. will showcase their latest developments, gadgets and smart home appliances at next month’s consumer electronics fair in Berlin, according to company officials on Friday. The annual IFA fair, to be held in Berlin from Sept. 2-7, will bring together about 240,000 participants [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) ― LG Electronics (LG) will unveil a pair of its newest smartly-priced L Series smartphones at IFA 2014 in Berlin. The L Fino and L Bello are powerful alternatives to higher-priced smartphones, perfect for teenagers and first-time smartphone owners in emerging 3G markets. With blazing fast Quad-Core processors and premium UX features [...]