SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk Yeol has extended an invitation to a group of Korean victims of the 1945 atomic bombing in Hiroshima during the upcoming Chuseok holiday, a presidential official said Saturday. “President Yoon has invited Korean atomic bomb victims to South Korea for the Chuseok holiday,” the official told [...]
HIROSHIMA, Japan, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol wrapped up a three-day visit to Hiroshima on Sunday after taking new steps to improve relations with Japan, pledging to do more for the global community and holding his first-ever meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Yoon was invited to Hiroshima to [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) – A Seoul court on Thursday ruled in favor of the government and dismissed a compensation suit filed by South Koreans who survived the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings in Japan. The Seoul Southern District Court turned down the suit filed by 230 victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, [...]
SEOUL/HAPCHEON, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) – A group of South Korean victims of the U.S. atomic bombs dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Thursday demanded an apology and compensation from both the United States and Japan. “Nuclear bombs were dropped and Koreans in Japan at the time were victims,” a shelter for [...]
TOKYO, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Asiana Airlines has said it will compensate all passengers aboard its flight that skidded off the runway at a Japanese airport last week. South Korea’s second-largest flag carrier said on its Japanese website in a Saturday post that passengers who were on board Asiana flight OZ162 from Seoul to Hiroshima in [...]