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 [...]
TOKYO, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The Japanese government on Tuesday approved new textbooks, apparently watering down the coercive nature of its wartime wrongdoings and intensifying its sovereignty claim to Dokdo, for use by the country’s elementary school students starting in 2024. Tokyo’s education ministry announced that 149 textbooks have passed its review, a move [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean Air resumed regular late-night flights between Incheon International Airport, the gateway to Seoul, and Tokyo’s Haneda International Airport on Monday, three years after they were suspended due to COVID-19. The flight departs from Haneda at 2 a.m. and arrives at Incheon at 4:35 a.m. seven times a week, [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Three Japanese animations were among the top five films on the weekend box-office chart in South Korea, industry data showed Monday, proving their unwavering popularity among local audiences. The Japanese animation “Suzume” posted 712,473 admissions from Friday to Sunday to top the box office for the second consecutive week, [...]