SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will integrate databases on Koreans conscripted as forced labor or soldiers during Japan’s colonial rule, the National Archives of Korea (NAK) said Monday. At present, the databases containing lists of Korean victims of Japan’s wartime forced labor and military conscription are spread among several state institutions, including [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — As a trade row between South Korea and Japan has continued for months, their tourist exchanges have taken a steep dive, hammering one of the most lucrative tourist routes in Asia. The number of Korean travelers visiting Japan nose-dived to some 205,000 in November, registering a dramatic fall of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A college bulletin board posted a job recruitment notice that suggested a good salary and comfortable employment conditions. However, it contained an ingenious twist. On Tuesday, a notice was posted on the Daegu Catholic University bulletin board and social media sites such as Facebook that offered a salary of [...]
TOKYO, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Networld Corp. and Cloudian® today announced that Networld will begin selling Cloudian’s HyperStore® object storage solution in Japan this month under a recently completed distribution agreement. The new partnership will provide customers with a limitlessly scalable, fully S3-compatible and highly cost-effective platform for managing, protecting and maximizing the value [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan suffered a wider decrease in its outbound shipments to South Korea compared with the other way around amid the monthslong trade dispute between the two Asian neighbors, data showed Sunday. Japan’s exports to South Korea reached US$15 billion over the July-October period compared with a year earlier, down [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Next year marks the 75th anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japanese colonial rule, but debate over whether to preserve the remains of Japanese imperialism continues unabated across the country. First of all, controversy is raging in Incheon over the demolition of a complex of dormitories built by Mitsubishi during [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid a prolonged boycott movement against Japanese products, most consumers are in fact refusing to purchase goods made in Japan. In a survey conducted by the Korea Rural Economic Institute on 1,519 households in South Korea, 81.5 percent of all consumers supported the boycott movement. The result comes as [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan is threatening to overtake South Korea’s No. 1 status in China’s imported cosmetics market this year, industry data showed Thursday, mainly on the back of the growing popularity of low- to mid-priced “J-beauty” products. Japanese companies accounted for 25.2 percent of China’s imported cosmetics in the January-October period, [...]
BUSAN, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s first memorial exhibition for Korean sea lions that went extinct following excessive poaching during Japanese colonial rule will be held at the Korea National Maritime Museum in Busan. The exhibition will take place between December 18 and March 15 at the Museum’s Special Exhibition Hall. The event [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Wartime documents showed the Japanese government was involved in forcing Korean women to serve as “comfort women” at Japan’s military brothels during World War II, Kyodo News reported Friday. The Japanese army asked that there be one comfort woman for every 70 soldiers, Kyodo reported, citing the documents collected [...]