SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — San Francisco and Los Angeles recently hosted ceremonies to mourn Kim Bok-dong, a women’s rights activist and victim of Japanese sexual slavery. On Sunday, a memorial service for Kim was held in St. Mary’s Square in San Francisco, where a statue to symbolize Japanese military sexual slavery was first [...]
QUANTICO, Virginia, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Elderly American veterans of the Korean War, including the father of Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Joseph Dunford, celebrated the unveiling of a memorial commemorating the Changjin Reservoir Battle, one of the fiercest battles in the war, on Thursday. The octagon-shaped memorial with a shining star on top [...]
PYEONGTAEK, South Korea, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – The Republic of Korea Navy has just completed a memorial commemorating the 46 soldiers lost in the sinking of the ROKS Cheonan warship. An exhaustive investigation revealed that on the night of March 26, 2010, the ship was hit by a North Korean torpedo, although North Korea [...]