SEOUL/TOKYO, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea expressed a “strong complaint” Tuesday after Japan renewed its territorial claim to the South Korean islets of Dokdo in its latest diplomatic policy report submitted to the cabinet. Earlier in the day, Japan claimed in the 2017 “blue book” the set of islets in the East Sea [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea on Friday strongly denounced Japan’s renewed claim to Korea’s easternmost islets in its latest education guidelines and demanded their immediate withdrawal. The Japanese government earlier decided to approve the revised guidelines that call for teaching students in elementary and middle schools that Dokdo belongs to Japan. The [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea strongly protested Japan’s renewed claim to the easternmost islets of Dokdo on Friday in its recently authorized textbooks, calling on Tokyo to take immediate corrective measures. The foreign ministry called in Hideo Suzuki, a minister at the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, to lodge its official protest. Chung [...]
DAEGU, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – North Gyeongsang Province recently teamed up with Jeski Social Campaign, an advertising firm, to come up with new public service ads refuting Japan’s latest claims to Dokdo, a group of small Korean islets that have been long contested by Japan. The posters revealed Sunday show gruesome photographs depicting Japanese [...]
TOKYO/SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Tokyo has complained to Seoul about a reference to Dokdo as South Korean territory on the latter’s Olympic website, a report said Friday. Citing multiple sources, Kyodo News said the Japanese foreign ministry has asked South Korea to stop referring to the islets as South Korean territory on the [...]
DOKDO, South Korea, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Lee Se-dol, a professional Go master who recently confronted Google’s deep-learning computer program AlphaGo, visited Dokdo, a disputed island in Korea’s East Sea on Thursday. Accompanied by singer Kim Jang-hoon, Lee’s visit was a part of a charity event to promote the game. The parties arrived at the [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea plans to conduct military exercises in waters near its easternmost islets of Dokdo later this week, a military official said Tuesday, in the latest warning against Japan over its repeated territorial claims to the islets. The drills are set to begin later this week and involve navy destroyers, [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) – After a rule change from the Korean army that opened cigarette sales on military bases to foreign companies, both the domestic tobacco industry and tobacco farms are up in arms. A total of 20 different types of cigarettes are supplied to the army PX. The armed forces welfare group evaluates the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea called on Japan Friday to drop its reckless claim to sovereignty over a pair of rocky islets in the East Sea. It was responding to a Tokyo speech by Japan’s top diplomat Fumio Kishida. He reiterated that Dokdo belong to Japan and said his government will deliver [...]
POHANG, Jan.14 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of foreign tourists that visited Dokdo Island last year increased greatly. According to Dokdo’s management office, 733 foreign tourists visited in 2015, which was five times more than the 127 foreign visitors in 2014. Since the island was opened to the public, 99 visited in 2005, 157 in [...]