BUSAN, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A coalition of South Korean civic groups on Thursday reaffirmed its pledge to erect a statue in front of the Japanese Consulate in South Korea’s second-largest city of Busan next year to commemorate Korean who suffered forced labor under Japan’s colonial rule. Members of the coalition, including the Busan [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid the controversy over the revision of the minimum wage act, which includes a weekday off, South Korean companies are facing a complicated wage system. At the same time, South Korean companies have shown greater flexibility with wage increases than in Japan, meaning wages will naturally increase as service [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Fans of the K-pop group BTS, known as ARMY, have donated winter goods to a facility that supports South Korean women forced to work in Japanese brothels during World War II. The House of Sharing, located in Gwangju, just outside of Seoul, posted on its website on Sunday that [...]
GWANGJU, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A regional appellate court ruled Wednesday that Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. must compensate Korean victims of wartime forced labor for their unpaid work, adding to a recent series of rulings in favor of the victims. The Gwangju High Court upheld the lower court decision for three elderly defendants, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Supreme Court confirmed two appellate court rulings on Thursday that ordered a Japanese company to compensate Koreans for forced labor during World War II. The four-judge bench handed down the decisions on two damages suits against Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. It upheld two rulings — one that [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Often-prickly relations between South Korea and Japan suffered another serious setback Wednesday, as Seoul made public its decision to dissolve a Tokyo-funded foundation on wartime sexual slavery. The Moon Jae-in administration’s move represents an effective nullification of a controversial accord in 2015 signed by the government of then President [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – A Japanese right-wing lawmaker has claimed that a member of K-pop girl group TWICE is engaged in anti-Japanese activities, citing her T-shirt as an example. The politician, Onodera Masaru of the Liberal Democratic Party, on Wednesday took issue with Dahyun’s wardrobe choice on his Twitter account. In the photo [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean girl band TWICE will be making an appearance on the immensely popular Japanese TV show Kohaku Uta Gassen for the second consecutive year. BTS, the boy band that topped the Billboard 200, was initially considered as another possible guest on the show, but was removed from [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Along with the recent cancellation of a Japanese TV appearance by K-pop superstars BTS, a series of negative press reports on K-pop singers have been published in Japanese media outlets. And following a large-scale anti-Korea rally held in central Tokyo hosted by right-wing activists, critics have expressed worry that [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – BTS’ agency Big Hit Entertainment has issued a statement over the recent controversies surrounding its artists’ wardrobe choices. “We don’t condone any activities of war or the use of atomic weapons. … We had no intention to hurt victims of the dropping of atomic bombs,” it said Tuesday night, [...]