INJE, South Korea, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Serving at the very eastern frontline of the South Korean military are a father and his son, guarding the barbed-wire fence that dissects the Korean Peninsula, just an inch outside of the infamous Demilitarized Zone. Lee In-wook, a 51-year-old sergeant major, serves in the 12th Infantry Division, [...]
PAJU, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The filming site of the sensational TV series “Descendants of the Sun” in Camp Greaves, the former U.S. military camp near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in Paju, north of Seoul, will turn into a foothold of the region’s tourism industry, provincial officials said Sunday. The camp, which is currently [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – After a serious landmine incident in the demilitarized zone (DMZ), which resulted in severe injuries to two South Korean staff sergeants, the problem of mines in Korea is surfacing again. In the DMZ, a buffer zone between the military forces of the two Koreas, more than one million landmines (officially) [...]
SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Thursday that the volume of inter-Korean trade hit a record high in 2014 on growth in exchanges at a joint industrial complex in the North despite Seoul’s punitive sanctions on Pyongyang. The value of inter-Korean trade reached US$2.343 billion last year, up 106.2 percent from a [...]
“I was so sad to hear that a 500-year-old forest was razed over to make way for ski slopes for the Winter Olympics.” “There are many aquariums throughout the world that display dolphins and killer whales in captivity. These are fun for us but for the animals it is living hell. If you can start [...]