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 [...]
SEOUL, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Large areas of seabed in the East Sea are turning grey with calcium compounds. According to the Korea Fisheries Resources Agency (FIRA), 62 percent of the East Sea shore is suffering from the sea desertification. With sea desertification, marine algae such as sea mustard, kelp and so on disappear, [...]
WASHINGTON, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. State Department revised a map of Korea on its website Monday to include a reference to South Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo. The islets, which Japan has long claimed, had not been marked in the Korea map in the website’s U.S. Passports and International Travel section, while [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Against Japan’s territorial claim to Dokdo, South Korea’s easternmost islets in the East Sea, a video news clip was released on Youtube disclosing the tragic extinction of sea lions around the island by Japanese fishermen. The second episode of Dokdo News titled “Truth of Disappeared Gangchi (Sea Lion)” counters [...]
SAMCHEOK, Korea, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A 5.9 meter long and 3.2 meter wide minke whale weighing 2 tons was found dead, stranded in a fishnet in the East Sea 19 kilometers from land in Wondeok-eup, Samcheok City, Kangwon-do on January 20. The whale was sold for 48 million won (US$ 44,138) on consignment. The minke [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Against IKEA’s discriminatory pricing policy in Korea, as well as its sale (in some markets) of a large-scale world map with the East Sea indicated as the Sea of Japan, a nationwide boycott that even includes a provincial council is spreading. At the frontline of the boycott movement is [...]