SEOUL, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s foreign minister has asked the U.N. cultural agency to monitor Japan’s compliance with recommendations on a Japanese mine complex, which is associated with Korea’s wartime forced labor and was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Cho Tae-yul made the request in a meeting with UNESCO Director-General [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Rare butterfly samples collected by world-renowned Korean entomologist Seok Joo-myung across the country during Japanese colonial rule will be returned to South Korea from Japan this week, a government agency said Tuesday. The National Institute of Biological Resources (NIBR) said it plans to receive a donation of about 120 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Air travelers between South Korea and Japan rose 20.8 percent on-year so far this month despite an earthquake warning issued in the neighboring country, industry data showed Friday. According to data from major airport operators submitted to Rep. Lee Yeon-hee of the main opposition Democratic Party, the number of [...]
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A White House official on Thursday suggested the possibility of holding a trilateral summit among the leaders of South Korea, the United States and Japan by the end of this year, following the historic Camp David summit last year. Mira Rapp-Hooper, the senior director for East Asia and Oceania [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has exchanged a message with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the occasion of the 79th anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule and vowed to bolster ties with Moscow, state media reported Friday. Putin extended a message to Kim earlier this week [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Turkey is rapidly becoming a pivotal distribution channel for Korean and Japanese television dramas, reshaping the global entertainment landscape. As the world’s third-largest exporter of TV series, trailing only the United States and the United Kingdom, Turkish producers are increasingly turning to foreign dramas for inspiration, creating innovative content that [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Recent seismic activity in Japan, coupled with warnings of a potential major earthquake, has begun to cast a shadow over South Korea’s robust tourism to its island neighbor. This unease, combined with the strengthening yen, is leading some in the travel industry to speculate that the boom in Japanese tourism, [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — An attempt by victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery to collect court-ordered compensation from the Japanese government has fallen through as Tokyo refused to submit a list of its assets in South Korea. The case involves several Korean victims of Japan’s sexual enslavement during World War II, who won [...]
PARIS, Jul. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – A Japanese right-wing commentator has drawn attention for his criticism of South Korea’s reduced Olympic presence at the Paris Games, characterizing it as symbolic of the nation’s decline. Katsumi Murotani, a prominent conservative figure in Japan, penned a column in the Weekly Fuji, a sister publication of the Sankei Shimbun, [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The National Museum of Korea is set to unveil a stunning collection of lacquerware from three East Asian nations, offering visitors a rare glimpse into the rich cultural heritage of the region. The special exhibition, titled “Three Countries, Three Colors: East Asian Lacquerware,” opens on July 10 in the museum’s [...]