SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) –A majority of Koreans doubt that the prosecutors’ office will be able to thoroughly investigate the bribe scandal of a late businessman. The People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy surveyed 1,000 adults on April 25 and 26 on the so-called “Sung Wan-jong List” scandal. Among the respondents, 53.5 percent said that [...]
GWANGJU, Apr. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The captain of the sunken ferry Sewol was sentenced to a life term for murder at an appeals court here Tuesday. Overturning a lower court ruling that acquitted Lee Joon-seok of murder, the Gwangju High Court convicted him of murdering 304 passengers aboard the ferry that sank off the [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea announced plans Wednesday to salvage the ferry that sunk off the country’s southwest coast a year earlier, claiming 304 lives. The retrieval will likely begin in September and take up to one and half years, the Ministry of Public Safety and Security said after a meeting of [...]
SEOUL, April 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Funding for a special forest in commemoration of victims of the sunken Sewol ferry passed its second phase target of 50 million won, as the nation marked the first anniversary of the tragedy. The Sewol Memorial Forest, to be established on the southwestern island of Jindo, only 4 kilometers away [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Various Korean associations are providing programs to Danwon High School students to help treat posttraumatic stress among survivors of the Sewol tragedy. A nearby pet hospital recently donated two Golden retriever puppies for a psychotherapy program, which has been conducted for over the past year at the school by [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean artists are holding musical and stage performances to remember those who perished in the Sewol ferry tragedy, a year after the disaster took place. The Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture is opening ‘Deluge,’ a non-verbal stage work made in remembrance of the incident, from April 16 to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Families of those missing in last year’s Sewol ferry disaster began a one-person relay protest in Seoul on Thursday, calling for a swift and full salvage of the sunken ship. Parents of Huh Da-yun and Cho Eun-hwa, both teenage girls who went missing in the ferry sinking, were standing [...]
“The Cannes International Film Festival fully supports BIFF and its executive director Lee Yong-kwan, putting all our honor on this. Outside forces should not have any influence on the programming of a film festival. A film festival should make its own decision on whether it likes a film or not.” - Thierry Fremaux, director of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The Save the Children Fund is holding a photo exhibition featuring 84 photographs taken by children affected by traumatizing events in Korea and Syria. The joint photo exhibition entitled ‘Seoul Meets Za’atari’ is being held at 57th Gallery in Jongno, Seoul from February 6 to 18. The exhibition has been [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – In the second half of this year, movie theaters are releasing a series of films that have caused societal shock or even trauma. Having attracted over 1 million viewers since its first run on October 2, “The Informant” directed by Im Soon-Rye is an infamous story about stem cell [...]