SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A young adult novel on Japan’s wartime sexual slavery, which was recently translated into English, will hit the shelves in the United States and other countries this year to recount the devastation of the Japanese wartime atrocity, according to its publisher Thursday. The 248-page novel, “Trampled Blossoms: What They [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean tourists visiting Japan tumbled more than 7 percent in July from a year earlier amid escalating tensions between the two neighbors over history and trade, Japanese government data showed Wednesday. A total of 561,700 South Koreans visited Japan last month, marking a 7.6 percent [...]
ULLEUNG, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — An elderly woman who is the sole registered resident of South Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo returned to her home this week after nearly two years of living on the mainland, local officials said Wednesday. The homecoming by Kim Shin-yeol, 81, came amid a bitter feud over trade and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will review whether to set up a training camp in Japan for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics due to radioactivity concerns over the 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown, the sports minister said Wednesday. Sports Minister Park Yang-woo told a parliamentary committee that the government will discuss the issue [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The boycott movement against Japan within South Korea, sparked by export restrictions imposed last month by Shinzo Abe’s government, has even spread to Japanese brand cigarettes. The number of cigarettes imported to South Korea from the Philippines came to 403 tons last month, down 31.9 tons or 7.3 percent [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean Air Lines Co. said Tuesday it will reduce more flights to Japan in the coming months due to lower travel demand to the neighboring country amid a trade dispute. Demand on the Japanese routes has been on a sharp decline since last month when Japan implemented export restrictions [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea should restrict imports of processed foods from Japan’s Fukushima region as radiation has been found in shipments, an opposition lawmaker said Monday. South Korea banned all seafood imports from eight Japanese prefectures near Fukushima in 2013 on concerns over their radiation levels in the wake of the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean airlines have seen their shares tumble since July as more locals shun tours to Japan amid trade tension between the two nations, data showed Sunday. The combined market value of six airlines listed on the main KOSPI market was estimated at 4.8 trillion won (US$4 billion) as [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Artists participating in the Aichi Triennale 2019 are demanding that their work be withdrawn following the organizers’ removal of the Statue of a Girl of Peace. South Korean artists Park Chan-kyong and Lim Min-ouk asked the Triennale secretariat to remove their work from the exhibition as a protest against [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will strengthen its environmental and health safety inspections for battery, tire and plastic waste imported from Japan, the government said Friday. The Ministry of Environment said it will beef up radioactive and heavy metals tests on Japanese waste batteries, tires and plastics being imported into South Korea [...]