ULLEUNG, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A monument erected to commemorate the nation’s inaugural swim between Ulleung Island and Dokdo, which was lost during a typhoon, has been reconstructed. Dokdo Saranghoe (Association of Love for Dokdo), a civic group that defends the Dokdo islets, which Japan claims as its territory, on Tuesday held an unveiling [...]
ANDONG, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The North Gyeongsang Province Fisheries Research Institute has released 200,000 Dohwa shrimp near the country’s easternmost islets of Dokdo and the nearby Ulleungdo island to restore the shrimp population. Also referred to as the Dokdo shrimp, approximately 100,000 prawns were released near Wangdolcho in the East Sea. Starting from [...]
SEOUL/TOKYO, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea lodged a strong protest against Japan on Tuesday over Tokyo’s renewed territorial claim to Dokdo, a set of rocky islets in the East Sea, in its latest annual diplomatic book. The claim, strongly disputed by South Korea that has long maintained effective control of Dokdo with the permanent [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea conducted regular military drills earlier this week to enhance the defense of its easternmost islets of Dokdo, an informed source said Friday, following Japan’s renewed claims to the East Sea outcroppings in a revised security document. Personnel of the Navy and Coast Guard staged the biannual drills [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo were not named on iPhone maps in the U.S., Britain and 20 other countries, according to a professor in Seoul Thursday, amid diplomatic tensions with Tokyo over Japan’s renewed claims to the East Sea outcroppings. Dokdo has long been a recurring source of [...]
SEOUL/TOKYO, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government strongly condemned Japan on Friday for laying repeated claim to the easternmost islets of Dokdo in its annual defense white paper. “(The government) strongly protests against Japan’s repetition of its sovereignty claim over Dokdo, clearly an integral part of the Korean territory in terms of [...]
GOYANG, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Aerospace University said Tuesday that an unmanned solar-powered aircraft that it had developed succeeded in a flight from the mainland to the easternmost islets of Dokdo and back, just in time to celebrate the school’s 70th anniversary. A research team from the school developed a mini-sized solar-powered [...]
SEOUL/TOKYO, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government lodged a strong protest with Japan Friday against Tokyo’s repeated assertion that Dokdo, a set of rocky islets in the East Sea, belong to the country. Seoul took issue with Tokyo’s first annual report on foreign policy and activities under the administration of Prime Minister [...]
SEOUL, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has provided scientific proof that reckless overfishing was the main cause behind the extinction of sea lions on South Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo. According to a study conducted at Pusan National University, the number of sea lions was estimated to have plunged to 8,500, less [...]
ULLEUNG, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A local government overseeing Dokdo has been struggling to cope with the prolonged absence of its sole registered resident on the easternmost South Korean islets, officials said Wednesday. Dokdo, located just 90 kilometers east of the East Sea island of Ulleung, has been under effective control of South Korea [...]