SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A volume of maps created during the Japanese colonial period by a Japanese historian belonging to Japanese royal patronage was found to indicate Dokdo and Ulleungdo as part of Joseon territory. In a book published by the Dokdo Research Institute yesterday, Katsumori Shiba (1880-1955), the editor of the Japanese [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Kyodo News reported yesterday that “Parliamentarians Acting to Protect Japanese Territory,” a group of Japanese lawmakers, held an emergency meeting on Wednesday after which they decided to send a questionnaire to Korean lawmakers regarding their recent visit to Dokdo. According to Kyodo News, the Japanese lawmakers will be questioning [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Students from CheongShim International Academy donated a statue of a Dokdo sea lion to the Museum of Japanese Colonial History in Korea on Sunday. Nineteen students from the Academy’s ‘Hamil’ club raised 4.5 million won to commission sculptor Kim Seong-rae to create the statue of a sea lion once [...]
DAEGU, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The only remaining resident on Dokdo, South Korea’s easternmost islets, died on Sunday. Kim Sung-do, 79, passed away at a Seoul hospital having suffered from liver cancer since September, according to the North Gyeongsang provincial government, which administers the islets. He will be laid to rest at the national [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Gil Tae-jin, a 23-year-old university student studying materials engineering at Kookmin University in Seoul has completed a 3,500-kilometer cycling trip across the North American continent from Seattle, Washington in the United States to Mexico. Gil decided to make the journey that lasted two months after hearing that Google’s map [...]
SUWON, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A special concert was held on August 9 at a location on Dokdo, Korea’s Natural Monument No. 336 which has also been designated as a “Natural Preservation Area.” A group of 21 students who held drums, gayageum, violins and other instruments in their hands played the “Arirang Medley.” With [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK), a non-governmental organization, revealed yesterday that a quick type in the search engine Google (www.google.com) of the keywords “Dokdo,” “Liancourt Rocks,” and “Takeshima” will bring about search results pinned to the geographical location of the East Sea (Sea of Japan) and will [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government’s YouTube clips on Dokdo, a pair of volcanic islets in the East Sea, have drawn more than 10 million hits, according to a related website Thursday. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs posted the videos on a special website, dokdo.mofa.go.kr, in Korean, English, Japanese and nine [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology announced yesterday that high school curriculum guidelines to teach all Japanese students that the disputed islets of Dokdo (known as Takeshima in Japan) belong to Japan will be distributed to teachers in 2019, three years ahead of schedule. The ministry [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A Japanese exhibition hall aimed at promoting the country’s claim to Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo will be relocated near the Korean Cultural Center developed by the Korean government in Tokyo. According to the Japanese daily newspaper Sankei Shimbun, the Territory and Sovereignty Exhibition Hall that opened at the [...]