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 [...]
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 [...]