SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea, China and Japan have agreed to accept a United Nations aviation agency’s proposal for an agreement critical for the safety of flights near Korea’s southern resort island of Jeju, the transport ministry said Monday. South Korean and Japanese air traffic controllers have been directing north-south flights and [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha called for Japan to refrain from “excessive responses” to this week’s local court ruling ordering Tokyo to compensate victims of its wartime sexual slavery during phone talks with her Japanese counterpart on Saturday. Kang made the appeal in the phone call with Toshimitsu Motegi amid [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Relations between South Korea and Japan appeared headed for a new low Friday, as a Seoul court delivered a landmark ruling ordering Tokyo to compensate its wartime sexual slavery victims amid a protracted row over its colonial-era forced labor. The ruling injected fresh complexities into Seoul’s budding efforts to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean victims of wartime sexual enslavement won their first legal victory Friday against the Japanese government in a landmark ruling. The Seoul Central District Court ordered Tokyo to make financial reparations of 100 million won (US$91,300) each to 12 “comfort women” who were dragged away from their homes [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is forecast to overtake Japan in terms of the proportion of elderly people among the total population in about 20 years due to its steep population aging speed, the central bank predicted Monday. The Bank of Korea (BOK) said in its latest report that South Korea ranks [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Lineage 2M, a mobile massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), will land in Japan and Taiwan during the first quarter of this year, South Korean online game maker NCSOFT Corp. said Monday. The mobile version of the mega-hit game Lineage 2 will be simultaneously available on Google’s Android and [...]
DAEJEON, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has appealed a South Korean court’s order to seize its assets held in South Korea soon after the relevant legal process to compensate victims of Japan’s wartime forced labor took effect late last month, judicial officials said Monday. The public notifications to Mitsubishi Heavy went [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Public notices of a local court took effect Tuesday to move forward a legal process to sell off local assets of a Japanese firm to compensate victims of Japan’s wartime forced labor, in a procedure likely to raise diplomatic tensions between Seoul and Tokyo. The public notification to Mitsubishi [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Over 70 percent of South Koreans participated in a nationwide boycott of Japan-made goods in one form or another amid an ongoing trade dispute between Seoul and Tokyo, a survey showed Tuesday. In a six-day survey by market researcher Embrain conducted on 1,000 adults below the age of 60 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The non-governmental organization Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK) sent letters on Monday to Amazon, eBay, and Walmart asking them to stop selling kamikaze headbands. The kamikaze headbands are being sold for US$10.99 on Amazon, $4.09 on eBay, and $6.99 at Walmart. The headbands feature a red circle with [...]