SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean university students and civic groups declared a boycott of the movie “Mulan” on Wednesday in support of the democracy protests in Hong Kong. Several student and civic groups held a rally in front of Walt Disney Co. Korea in southern Seoul, asking the company to scrap its [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Chinese students responsible for ripping off banners placed around the Yonsei University campus to promote democracy in Hong Kong have been indicted without detention. The Seoul Western District Prosecutor’s Office announced Tuesday that eight Chinese students from Yonsei University have been charged with allegations of damaging public property. The [...]
SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) — President Moon Jae-in declared a bid Sunday for the inscription of documentary heritage related to South Korea’s historic pro-democracy movement in 1960 on UNESCO’s global Memory of the World Register. Speaking at a national ceremony to mark the movement’s 60th anniversary, he said the bid is meant to “specially [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Gallery We.AN, an art gallery in Mapo District, Seoul, was packed with South Korean and Hong Kong visitors on Sunday afternoon. They came to visit the gallery’s photo exhibition, titled ‘Stand with Hong Kong,’ introducing various photos of the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong. The exhibition was hosted by Freedom [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The death of former President Kim Young-sam on Sunday, following the death of his successor President Kim Dae-jung in 2009, marks the end of the “two Kims era.” The two Kims — both iconic figures of the country’s pro-democracy movement by fighting against military rulers — dominated the nation’s [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Former President Kim Young-sam, who formally ended decades of military rule in South Korea and accepted a massive international bailout during the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis, died Sunday. He was 88. Kim, who had been hospitalized with fever and breathing problems since Thursday, died at 12:21 a.m., according to [...]