SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has so far nationalized 5.04 million square meters of land owned by Japanese citizens and Japanese companies during the 1910-45 colonial rule, the state procurement agency said Thursday. The official appraisal price of this land is estimated at 150 billion won (US$114 million) and the size of [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) — President Moon Jae-in commemorated a historic provisional government, set up against Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule of Korea, with a call Saturday for national unity to ride out social and economic crises from the coronavirus. “Social and economic crises that we face down the road beyond COVID-19 may be even [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A statue symbolizing female independence activists who resisted Japan’s colonial rule of Korea has been installed in the heart of Seoul in commemoration of the centennial of the February 8th Independence Declaration and the March 1, 1919, Independence Movement. A Seoul-based foundation that commemorates anti-Japanese female independence activists said [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s government has confirmed the existence of 2,487 more independence fighters against Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule through an analysis of records scattered across the country, the Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs said Thursday. As part of a project to mark the centennial anniversary of the March 1 [...]