SEOUL, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) — President Lee Jae-myung and first lady Kim Hye-kyung paid their visit to a traditional market in Seoul on Friday, shortly after attending the 70th Memorial Day ceremony. Lee and Kim greeted small merchants at the market in Dongjak Ward, where the Memorial Day ceremony was held at Seoul National [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea held various events to commemorate the international memorial day on Friday for Asian women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II. The government-led national ceremony marking the International Memorial Day for Comfort Women took place at the Hill of National Commemoration in [...]
DAEJEON, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s annual Memorial Day service was a low-key event Saturday as a precautionary measure against the new coronavirus that has infected more than 11,000 people here. Veterans, patriots and family members of those who took part in the Korean War and the country’s independence and democracy movements, as [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will hold the second-ever government-hosted national ceremony to commemorate International Memorial Day for Comfort Women on Wednesday. About 300 people from all walks of life, including elderly women sexually enslaved by the imperial Japanese army, will take part in the ceremony at the Kim Koo Museum and [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) – June is a month of national patriots and veterans in Korea. It was chosen by the Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs to commemorate the noble sacrifices made by Korea’s patriots and veterans of the past. Korea’s Memorial Day (June 6), and commemorations for the outbreak of the Korean [...]