SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) – A Seoul court on Thursday ordered a Japanese company to compensate a South Korean for forced work during Japan’s colonial rule. In the latest legal victory for wartime forced laborers, the Seoul Central District Court ruled in favor of Lee Chun-myeon, 86, who filed the case against Nichi-Fujikoshi Corp. [...]
DAEGU, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – North Gyeongsang Province recently teamed up with Jeski Social Campaign, an advertising firm, to come up with new public service ads refuting Japan’s latest claims to Dokdo, a group of small Korean islets that have been long contested by Japan. The posters revealed Sunday show gruesome photographs depicting Japanese [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – South Koreans’ calls for the renegotiation of a 2015 Seoul-Tokyo deal on Japan’s sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War II have been rising amid the rekindling of a row between the two countries over symbols of the victims, according to poll results released by Gallup Korea on [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Georgia’s state capital is set to become the first major city in the United States to accommodate a comfort woman statue, a monument representing sex slavery victims of Japan’s colonial rule. Kim Baek-kyu, the former president of the Korean American Association of Greater Atlanta, said Wednesday (local time) that [...]
TOKYO, JAPAN, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) today announced that digital imaging giant Ricoh Company, Ltd. (TYO: 7752) has migrated to an Ethernet fabric network within its Yokohama data center. The deployment of switches supporting Brocade® VCS® Fabric technology enables Ricoh to greatly reduce network operating costs and complexity within its data [...]
TOKYO/SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Tokyo has complained to Seoul about a reference to Dokdo as South Korean territory on the latter’s Olympic website, a report said Friday. Citing multiple sources, Kyodo News said the Japanese foreign ministry has asked South Korea to stop referring to the islets as South Korean territory on the [...]
ANYANG, South Korea, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – A comfort woman statue erected in front of the Japanese consulate in Busan last month has triggered yet another diplomatic clash between South Korea and Japan. The statue represents comfort women, sexual slavery victims of the Japanese military during its occupation of Korea. There are more than [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s shipbuilding industry is due to be outdone by Japan for the first time in 17 years in order backlog, tentative data from a global research firm indicated Wednesday, overturning its dominance that at one time was 10 times bigger than that of its neighbor. Estimates from Clarkson [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs called in a Japanese Embassy minister Thursday to protest the Japanese defense minister’s visit to the Yasukuni Shrine, a controversial temple where war criminals from World War II are enshrined. The director-general of the ministry’s Northeast Asia Affairs Bureau, Chung Byung-won, officially lodged [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – A foundation dedicated to supporting South Korean women forced into wartime brothels for the Japanese military said Friday that five more victims have expressed their intent to accept compensation disbursed by the Japanese government, bring the total to 34 out of the 46 women still alive. The Reconciliation and [...]