SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Often-prickly relations between South Korea and Japan suffered another serious setback Wednesday, as Seoul made public its decision to dissolve a Tokyo-funded foundation on wartime sexual slavery. The Moon Jae-in administration’s move represents an effective nullification of a controversial accord in 2015 signed by the government of then President [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Fans of Korean boy band sensation BTS have started making donations to comfort women victims from the Japanese colonial era. According to the “House of Sharing” in Gwangju, Gyeonggi Province, over 130 separate donations totaling 3.5 million won have been wired to the foundation’s bank account since November 8, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Regarding the Japanese Self-Defense’s unwavering stance on hoisting the flag of the rising sun during an upcoming international naval review to be held in Jeju, participants at the weekly “Wednesday Demonstration” also criticized the decision. The civic group “Justice for the Comfort Women,” which held the 1,355th weekly Wednesday [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Two young Korean men have completed a 70-day bicycle journey from Los Angeles to New York to spread awareness of the forced sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War II. College students Baek Hyeon-jae and Lee Ho-jun set off from the beach in Santa Monica, L.A., on June [...]
LOS ANGELES, Jun. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Two South Korean college students will set out on a trans-American bicycle ride this week, seeking to boost global awareness of Korean women forced into sexual slavery for Japanese troops during World War II. The students — 25-year-old Baek Hyun-jae and 22-year-old Lee Ho-jun — recently arrived in [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — New research shows that Korean comfort women, victims of Japanese colonial rule, are still suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder 70 years after their ordeal. Professor So-young Irene Lee of Soonchunhyang University Hospital, who led a team of researchers, revealed the results of the study in the April edition of [...]
TOKYO, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Four out of five South Koreans are distrustful of their island neighbors to the east, according to the results of a poll conducted by a Japanese news and communications organization. A total of 1,000 respondents each from South Korea, the United States, the U.K., Thailand, China and France participated [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan has rejected calls from South Korea to include content related to so-called ‘comfort women’ in school textbooks. The request from Seoul to include information about comfort women in government-approved public education guidelines was met with a cold shoulder, Japan’s Sankei Shimbun reported earlier this week. The South Korean delegation [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite repeated statements made by the governments of both South Korea and Japan declaring their intention to build a future-oriented relationship, conflicting views on previously arranged reparations for comfort women are continuing to be a point of contention. In his commemorative speech on March 1, the 99th anniversary marking [...]
TOKYO, Japan 29 (Korea Bizwire) – In the past 10 years, the number of Japanese high school students who have visited South Korea on school trips has dropped precipitously, with one cause believed to be the complicated relations between the neighboring countries. According to reporting by Mainichi Shimbun, 3,246 Japanese youngsters came to South Korea [...]