SEOUL, June 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism expressed “deep regret” Friday over the International Olympic Committee (IOC)’s response to its letter protesting Japan’s inclusion of South Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo on a Tokyo Olympics map. According to the ministry, the IOC sent a reply to its June 10 [...]
TOKYO, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) — An exhibition showcasing a statue symbolizing Japan’s sexual enslavement of women from Korea and elsewhere in Asia is set to continue despite opposition from right-wing activists, organizers said Thursday. The exhibition is set to take place in the Japanese city of Osaka from July 16-18, according to the organizers. [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean-made instant noodles, or “ramyeon” in Korean, are gaining a stronger foothold in Japan, the country that claims to have invented the world’s first instant noodle. South Korea recorded a surplus of $21.1 million in its instant noodle trade with Japan in the first four months of this year, [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Public anger has grown this week after a court dismissed a group of forced labor victims’ damages suit against Japanese firms, with some accusing the judge of injecting his personal beliefs into the ruling and demanding that he be impeached. The Seoul Central District Court dismissed the case Monday, [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) — For two consecutive years, the mutual perception between South Koreans and Japanese has been at its ‘worst’ since the normalization of Korea-Japan relations in 1965. South Korean newspaper Hankook Ilbo and Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun conducted a survey of 1,000 South Koreans and 1,063 Japanese, in which 81 percent of [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A local court on Monday dismissed a damages suit launched by 85 South Korean victims of wartime forced labor in Japan and their families against 16 Japanese companies, saying the plaintiffs don’t have litigation rights. The Seoul Central District Court said South Korean wartime forced laborers cannot claim individual [...]
SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid a series of assaults from conservative extremists in Japan surrounding the case of sex slaves committed by the Japanese military, like-minded Japanese citizens are gathering to hold exhibitions of the Statue of Peace. The Tokyo Organizing Committee for the Inconvenient Exhibition of Expression, consisting of civic group activists [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea-Japan relations have deteriorated to a level where only 2 in 10 Koreans and Japanese say they like each other, but a majority of people still want diplomatic ties between the two countries to improve. The Korea Economic Research Institute conducted a survey of 1,431 South Korean and [...]
SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Following Japan’s decision to release contaminated water from its wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean, some South Korean consumers have opted to reduce their consumption of seafood regardless of its origin, a consumer advocacy group here said Tuesday. The Consumers Korea conducted a survey of 500 men [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean woman forced into sexual slavery for Japanese troops during World War II has died, a civic group said Monday, bringing down the number of registered surviving victims to 14. The woman, identified only with her surname Yoon, died at around 1 p.m. Sunday at the age [...]