SEOUL, Jul. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has completed the nationalization of land worth an estimated 90 billion won (US$76.40 million) across the country that should have reverted to the state but was still registered under Japanese names following Japan’s 1910-45 colonization of Korea, government data showed Thursday. The data, submitted to Kang Byung-won, [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and Japan will hold director-general-level talks this week to discuss a broad range of issues, including follow-up measures related to Japan’s wartime sexual enslavement of Korean women, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Monday. It said the meeting set for Tuesday in Tokyo will be attended by Chung Byung-won, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The government’s decision to readopt state-authored textbooks for secondary school students has escalated the controversy surrounding the omission of a revered female independence fighter in history textbooks for high school students. Until the 2014 school year, two of eight government-approved history textbooks had excluded descriptions of Yu Gwan-sun (1902-1920), [...]
HARBIN, China, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — China plans to double the size of a memorial hall honoring a revered Korean independence hero who assassinated a prominent Japanese colonial leader more than a century ago in China, the memorial hall’s officials said Wednesday. Chinese railway authorities opened the memorial hall earlier last year honoring the [...]