SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s government has confirmed the existence of 2,487 more independence fighters against Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule through an analysis of records scattered across the country, the Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs said Thursday. As part of a project to mark the centennial anniversary of the March 1 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A weekly civic rally calling for the Japanese government to give an official apology and compensation to the Korean victims of the Japanese army’s World War II sexual enslavement marked its 27th anniversary Wednesday. The first Wednesday rally was held Jan. 8, 1992, on the occasion of then Japanese [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Tension is rising between South Korea and Japan with the two counties exchanging YouTube videos accusing each other of the radar incident involving a Japanese military aircraft and a South Korean naval vessel. The South Korean government posted a new YouTube video with subtitles in Chinese, French, Spanish, Russian, [...]
QUEBEC CITY, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — LeddarTech, an industry leader providing the most versatile and scalable auto and mobility LiDAR platform, today announced that it has selected Nagase & Co. Ltd. as the distributor of its solid-state LiDAR solutions for ADAS and autonomous vehicles in Japan. “We are honored to represent LeddarTech’s visionary LiDAR [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Friday released its own video clip to repudiate Japan’s claims over an escalating spat involving military radar, renewing calls for Tokyo to stop distorting facts and apologize over the incident. Seoul’s defense ministry posted the video clip on YouTube, a week after Tokyo released its own [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — An escalating spat between South Korea and Japan over a recent military radar “lock-on” incident has laid bare their deep-rooted distrust, adding to anxiety here about Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s defense policy and further complicating Washington’s push for stronger trilateral security cooperation. The latest row is shaping up to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean electric vehicle (EV) battery makers performed poorly in the world market in 2018 compared to their Japanese and Chinese rivals, a report showed Friday. Global shipments of EV battery products came to 76,950 megawatt-hours (MWh) in the first 11 months of last year, up a whopping 72.8 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Japanese beer kept the title of most-imported beer last year in South Korea, while imports of Chinese beer faltered. Beer imports from Belgium and the U.S. also grew rapidly. South Korea’s National Tax Service released statistics showing that beer imports between January and November of last year totaled $288 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Victims of Japan’s wartime forced labor have filed for an asset seizure against Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. (NSSM) as the Japanese firm has not carried out the top court’s order to compensate them. A legal counsel representing the four victims and their descendants has recently asked a [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea now accounts for 60 percent of Japanese beer exports every year. Most of the imports are manufactured at three factories in Fukuoka and Oita, Japan. NHK, Japan’s national public broadcasting channel, reported on Thursday that the volume of Japanese beer exports to South Korea has increased by [...]