SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Wednesday it has lodged a complaint with the world’s top Olympic body over Japan’s potential use of its imperial flag during next year’s Summer Games. The sports ministry said it sent a letter to International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach, expressing “deep disappointment and concerns” [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan has announced its plans to permit the use of the Rising Sun Flag at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games. Many South Koreans see the Rising Sun Flag as a symbol of Japan’s aggression and militarism. According to SBS, a domestic broadcaster, the Tokyo Organizing Committee of [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The cyber diplomatic missionary called the Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK) posted a video Thursday on YouTube claiming that the Rising Sun Flag is a war criminal flag like the Nazi’s Hakenkreuz, or swastika. VANK also sent videos with English subtitles to 64 Holocaust centers around the world, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan has decided to skip an international naval event in South Korea next week amid a dispute over its plan to fly the Rising Sun flag, a Seoul government source said Friday. Japan informed South Korea of the decision to not send a warship to the International Fleet Review [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Regarding the Japanese Self-Defense’s unwavering stance on hoisting the flag of the rising sun during an upcoming international naval review to be held in Jeju, participants at the weekly “Wednesday Demonstration” also criticized the decision. The civic group “Justice for the Comfort Women,” which held the 1,355th weekly Wednesday [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A Japanese warship carrying a controversial flag symbolic of its past imperialism are expected to join an international fleet review slated to take place on South Korea’s southern island of Jeju next month, a military source in Seoul said Thursday. The display of Japan’s Rising Sun flag is likely [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Professor Seo Kyoung-duk from Sungshin Women’s University revealed today that he had asked global e-commerce giant Amazon to stop selling products featuring the Rising Sun Flag, which represents the perils of imperialism for many Koreans. After being alerted by a member of the public, Seo spent the last two [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan Airlines Co. (JAL), the flag carrier airline of Japan, has promised not to use the controversial image of the Japanese Rising Sun Flag embossed on the cover of its inflight meals, a South Korean activist said Thursday. Seo Kyung-duk, a professor at Sungshin Women’s University in Seoul, said [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The Hakenkreuz or swastika, better known as the Nazi symbol, is rarely used for commercial purposes for its obvious ties to the horrors of Nazi Germany and World War II. And while the Japanese Imperial Flag, alternatively known as the Rising Sun Flag, is also symbolic of WWII and [...]