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) – [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The North Gyeongsang provincial government will be operating a Dokdo promotional bus from February 13. The bus will be a moving exhibition of Dokdo-related content such as photographs and books. The outside of the bus will be decorated with Dokdo photographs as well. The bus will be presented at the Pohang [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – “Dokdo Bread” made by a baker in his 40’s is the talk of town in Pohang, a southeastern port city in South Korea. Kim Ki-seon, the baker, began baking the bread last year to protect Dokdo from Japan, after the news that Japan was making “Takeshima Bread.” With dough [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Gyeongsangbuk-do Provincial Government is producing a 3D animation to promote Dokdo. This project, expected to cost 1 billion won, will promote Dokdo’s history and some fun facts related to the islets. 3D based characters and theme songs will be also featured. Existing content regarding Dokdo has been centered on factual [...]