SEOUL, Jun. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Once synonymous with Ulleungdo, an island off the east coast of mainland South Korea, squid are now caught more in the nation’s southernmost region than in the waters of the East Sea. According to a report released by Statistics Korea, the total amount of Pacific flying squid – the [...]
ULSAN, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The carcass of a humpback whale discovered by a fishing boat is likely to end up on the trash heap, as the individual who found the dead animal tied up in fishing nets has adamantly turned down entreaties from whale researchers for the “catch” to be donated to science. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s squid catch fell to the lowest level in five years in 2017, dented by Chinese boats’ overfishing in the East Sea, a report showed Wednesday. South Korean boats caught a total of 12,082 tons of squid in coastal waters and the open sea last year, which was [...]
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 [...]