SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and Japan have agreed that a delegation from Seoul will visit Japan for four days to assess Tokyo’s plan to discharge radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Saturday. Working-level officials from the two countries held a meeting in Seoul on [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida took steps Sunday to reciprocate President Yoon Suk Yeol’s commitment to improving bilateral ties, as he accepted a South Korean team’s inspection of the planned release of radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant and acknowledged the past pain of Koreans under [...]
SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Monday put Japan back on its “white list” of trusted trading partners, three years after the removal, in a move to improve their bilateral economic and diplomatic relationship, the industry ministry said. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy issued a revision to its public notice [...]
INCHEON, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A history tour program will return to Incheon’s Bupyeong district, just west of Seoul, designed to remember the pain of forced mobilization during Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule. More than 1,200 people participated in the program last year, which is being hosted by the Bupyeong Cultural Center. The tour comprises [...]
SEOUL/TOKYO, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea lodged a strong protest against Japan on Tuesday over Tokyo’s renewed territorial claim to Dokdo, a set of rocky islets in the East Sea, in its latest annual diplomatic book. The claim, strongly disputed by South Korea that has long maintained effective control of Dokdo with the permanent [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Musinsa Co., a South Korean fashion platform, said Friday it opened its first pop-up store in Japan, as the unicorn startup plans to expand its presence in the neighboring country. The company will introduce various homegrown fashion brands, including AMOMENTO, Matin Kim and Mardi Mercredi, to Japanese consumers during [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — It has been 12 years since the Fukushima disaster, and radioactive substances continue to be found in Japanese agricultural, fishery, and livestock products, civic groups claimed. The Korean Federation for Environmental Movements and the Korea Radiation Watch reported that 5.3 percent of 13,070 fishery products tested by Japan’s Ministry [...]
SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of the Japanese public believes that Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO)’s plan to release the contaminated water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant this spring or the summer is not in the interest of the Japanese public, a survey showed Tuesday. The Japan Nuclear Energy [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The most exact variation known to date of “Daedongyeojido,” a famous large-scale map of the Korean Peninsula created in the 19th century by Korean cartographer Kim Jeong-ho, has returned from Japan. The Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA) unveiled the map to the media Thursday as the newly found edition draws [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The presidential office on Thursday ruled out resumption of seafood imports from Japan’s Fukushima region over radiation contamination concerns, saying the health and safety of people are the foremost priority. “Fukushima seafood will never come into the country,” the office said in a notice to media. “With regard to [...]