SINAN, June 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A sea lion, once believed to have gone extinct due to indiscriminate poaching by the Japanese during the colonial period, was spotted on Gageo Island in Sinan, 313 kilometers south of Seoul last Thursday. The sea lion was seen resting on a rock on the Nokseom seashore, which delineates [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of South Korean scientists has found that a batch of animal bones discovered from Ulleung Island belonged to sea lions, which went extinct decades ago on the island, the maritime ministry said Sunday. The announcement came after a group of local scientists found 20 pieces of animal [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of South Korean middle and high school students have published an English fairytale book about an extinct sea lion as part of efforts to promote South Korean sovereignty over the easternmost Dokdo Islets. The students of Cheongshim International Academy in Gapyeong, Gyeonggi Province translated a fairytale that [...]
SEJONG, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s state-run marine research center said Wednesday that it has found traces of sea lions that used to live on the country’s easternmost islets of Dokdo. The Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology, which has been carrying out joint research with Pusan National University, said the team [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Students from CheongShim International Academy donated a statue of a Dokdo sea lion to the Museum of Japanese Colonial History in Korea on Sunday. Nineteen students from the Academy’s ‘Hamil’ club raised 4.5 million won to commission sculptor Kim Seong-rae to create the statue of a sea lion once [...]