SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea said Tuesday that it plans later this week to repatriate eight North Koreans who were rescued last week in the East Sea, as they expressed wishes to go home. The government plans to send them back home around Thursday as it will seek to notify North Korea [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) – A Seoul-based nongovernmental organization said Thursday that it has created a new website to promote the wider international use of “East Sea” as the name of the body of water between the Korean Peninsula and Japan. VANK, or Voluntary Agency Network of Korea, said that the opening of the [...]
WASHINGTON, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Nearly 110,000 ethnic Koreans in the United States petitioned the U.S. government Tuesday to refer to the body of water between the Korean Peninsula and Japan as “the East Sea” in addition to “the Sea of Japan,” their representatives said. A Korean resident group in Virginia and other representatives [...]
SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Shortly after North Korea’s ballistic missile launch on Wednesday, the U.S. military issued a statement that may add to the anger of Koreans over the naming of the waters between the peninsula and Japan. In a five-paragraph document posted on its website, the U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM), headquartered in [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Choi Hyun-jung, a 17-year-old South Korean high school student, corrected Sea of Japan nomenclature in an article by London-based news site The Stack (www.thestack.com) to East Sea – a decades-long naming dispute between the neighboring countries. Choi is one of the “youth public ambassadors,” a joint initiative by the [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) – A female killer whale and calf have been recently spotted in waters off the southeastern coast of South Korea, a local research institute said Friday. The pair was seen in waters off Uljin, North Gyeongsang Province, Wednesday, a spokesman for the National Institute of Fisheries Science said. The last [...]
BUSAN, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Wave Gliders, self-serving unmanned drones for underwater research, are being deployed to South Korea’s East Sea, around Ulleungdo and Dokdo islands. According to the Korea Hydrographic and Oceanographic Administration, the unmanned surface vehicles, equipped with autonomous navigation systems, will be in service for the next five years starting in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s squid catch from the East Sea has been on a steady decline over the past four years due mainly to Chinese boats’ overfishing, data showed Tuesday. According to the data by the National Federation of Fisheries Cooperatives, the amount of squid sold at its 18 cooperatives along [...]
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 [...]
ULJIN, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The ’2015 Korean Hot Spring Festival’ will be held at Uljin from October 2 to October 4. The festival will be held under the slogan ‘Walking through the Geumgang pine trees, looking at the East Sea and enjoying the hot springs’. Guerrilla events, family hiking contests and a seminar on [...]