SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Relations between South Korea and Japan appeared headed for a new low Friday, as a Seoul court delivered a landmark ruling ordering Tokyo to compensate its wartime sexual slavery victims amid a protracted row over its colonial-era forced labor. The ruling injected fresh complexities into Seoul’s budding efforts to [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The long-fraught ties between South Korea and Japan are plunging to a new low, as their intractable historical issues are bleeding into the economic domain, with voices for reconciliation drowned out by domestic politics, nationalism and mutual distrust. On Monday, Tokyo blindsided Seoul by announcing that it would tighten [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s presidential office said Wednesday the leaders of South Korea and Japan are expected to skip summit talks when they attend regional forums later this month amid diplomatic standoffs over a Seoul court’s recent ruling on wartime forced labor. “It appears to be difficult under the current mood,” [...]