WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The top diplomats of South Korea, the United States and seven other countries issued a joint statement Thursday, calling for an end to “extreme violence” facing Iranian women and girls protesting the death of a 22-year-old allegedly caused by the country’s morality police. “The undersigned Foreign Ministers for country members [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The streets around the office of President Yoon Suk-yeol in the central Seoul district of Yongsan appear to be replacing the neighborhood of Cheong Wa Dae, the former presidential office and residence compound, as a new magnet for individual and group demonstrators. On Wednesday, the second day of Yoon’s [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A conservative South Korean civic group tore up the Chinese flag during a rally near the Chinese Embassy in central Seoul on Friday to protest controversial refereeing against some of South Korea’s short track speed skaters at the Beijing Winter Olympics. Members of the civic group, which calls itself [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court has finalized suspended prison terms for four anti-American activists charged with trespassing into the U.S. ambassador’s residence in 2019 as part of a protest over defense cost-sharing talks between the two countries, court officials said Monday. The protesters, who are members of a progressive association of [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Four South Korean university students indicted for breaking into the United States ambassador’s residence in Seoul last October were all given suspended prison sentences by a local court Wednesday. The Seoul Central District Court sentenced the four students each to an imprisonment of one year, suspended for two years, after [...]
SEONGJU, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Four more interceptor launchers for a U.S. missile defense system entered a southern military base Thursday after clashes between police and protesters that resulted in dozens of injuries. The arrival of the launchers and other equipment came some 14 months after Seoul and Washington decided to deploy the Terminal [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Justice Minister Kim Hyun-woong vowed on Friday not to tolerate any illegal, violent demonstrations ahead of next week’s protest, the second in three weeks. “An illegal, violent protest is a critical and evident challenge to peace-loving citizens and the constitutionalism of South Korea,” Kim said in a statement. “(We [...]