SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – A school dedicated to teaching the history of South Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo has opened in Shanghai, a South Korean professor leading the program said Tuesday. The so-called “Dokdo School” is aimed at raising awareness of the rocky outcroppings in the East Sea, the subject of a territorial [...]
DAEGU, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – A local government has distributed 2,500 copies of the “2016 Dokdo Calendar” abroad in a bid to publicize South Korea’s sovereignty over the rocky outcroppings in the East Sea, officials said Thursday. North Gyeongsang Province, also called Gyeongsangbuk-do, launched the campaign in 2013 to help counter Japan’s claim to [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Environment and the National Institute of Biological Resources jointly announced that they had discovered five new species found for the first time in the world on Dokdo. According to research on native plants and animals conducted by the institute since 2013, it has found a total [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is conducting a military drill to defend its easternmost islets of Dokdo amid Japan’s renewed claims to the territory, military officers said Friday. The Navy, jointly with the Coast Guard, “are carrying out the two-day drill from yesterday on and around the rocky outcroppings in the East [...]
“Despite our government’s repeated warnings, the Japanese government yesterday carried out the provocation of reviewing and passing middle school textbooks that distort, reduce and omit the historical facts and today repeated the historically regressive move of passing through the Cabinet a Diplomatic Bluebook containing unjust claims regarding the issues of Dokdo and the victims of [...]
BEIJING, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Scores of pictures of South Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo will be put on display in Beijing next week, the event’s organizers said Saturday, marking the first overseas photo exhibition of Dokdo. Dokdo, which lies closer to South Korea in the body of water between the Korean Peninsula and Japan, [...]
WASHINGTON, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. State Department revised a map of Korea on its website Monday to include a reference to South Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo. The islets, which Japan has long claimed, had not been marked in the Korea map in the website’s U.S. Passports and International Travel section, while [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Dokdo Museum Seoul is preparing a special event for its 90,000th visitor in celebration of its 900 days of operation, according to an announcement on its website. The museum will award a three-person travel ticket for Dokdo and Ulleungdo Islands to its 90,000th visitor, expected to be identified between March [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Against Japan’s territorial claim to Dokdo, South Korea’s easternmost islets in the East Sea, a video news clip was released on Youtube disclosing the tragic extinction of sea lions around the island by Japanese fishermen. The second episode of Dokdo News titled “Truth of Disappeared Gangchi (Sea Lion)” counters [...]
This video will tell you why so many sea lions — once the most populous animal around Dokdo areas — disappeared suddenly — in very cruel ways, amid the ownership battle over Dokdo Islets between South Korea and Japan. (warnings: this video clip contains some graphic images in it.) SEJONG, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – [...]