JEJU, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — In 1653, 364 years ago, the first man to leave a written record about the Korean people set foot on Jeju Island soil. Hendrick Hamel and his crew of Dutchmen were on a merchant ship christened “De Sperwer” headed to Japan when fearsome waves and winds in the seas wrecked [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – A Galaxy S7 user was able to survive a shipwreck in the Philippines thanks to the phone’s waterproof features, said South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. on Tuesday. In a letter sent to the tech firm, the user, whose identity has been withheld, was on boat heading to [...]
SEOUL, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) – A Chinese trade vessel from the current city of Ningbo was heading towards modern-day Fukuoka, Japan, when it sank in the coastal waters of Sinan County, South Jeolla Province, in 1323. The ship’s existence came to light 650 years later when a Korean fisherman retrieved six pieces of Chinese [...]