SEOUL, April 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A quiet hillside arrest. A missing teenager. A fragment of a report, dated August 17, 1994, offers little more than this: “Took refuge in a mountain near the village, was captured by military police forces, later disappeared while imprisoned on the mainland.” The boy’s name was Yang Byung-in. He was [...]
TOKYO, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Japanese government has effectively excluded its 20th century wartime atrocity against Koreans in a letter of formal recommendation for its former gold and silver mine, according to informed sources Monday. Tokyo has launched a campaign to get the Sado mine designated as UNESCO world heritage next year despite [...]
TOKYO, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The Japanese government on Tuesday sought the UNESCO World Heritage listing of a gold mine, according to a local media report, despite strong protests from South Korea over its connection to wartime forced labor Following approval from the Cabinet of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, the Tokyo government submitted a [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The UNESCO World Heritage Center has turned down South Korea’s application for its tidal wetlands to be listed as a World Heritage site, the Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA) said Thursday. An official at the CHA said in a phone interview with Yonhap News Agency on Thursday that the center returned the application, citing a lack of information about management [...]
SEOUL, July 10 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s Gender Equality Minister Chung Huyn-back said Monday the government plans to set up a museum for Korean victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery in Seoul, in an apparent show of the new Moon Jae-in government’s resolve to sternly deal with Japan’s wartime human rights violation. “The government [...]