SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs called in a Japanese Embassy minister Thursday to protest the Japanese defense minister’s visit to the Yasukuni Shrine, a controversial temple where war criminals from World War II are enshrined. The director-general of the ministry’s Northeast Asia Affairs Bureau, Chung Byung-won, officially lodged [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea has decided to use Japan’s comfort women fund to financially assist Korean women sexually enslaved by Japanese troops during Japan’s colonial-rule of the Korean Peninsula decades ago, the foreign ministry said Thursday. The government will provide 100 million won (US$89,581) to surviving victims who were forced to [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea on Monday expressed “deep concerns and regrets” over Japanese politicians’ visit to a controversial war shrine in Tokyo, urging them to work up their courage to “squarely face history.” In a move to mark the 71st anniversary of the end of World War II, dozens of Japanese [...]
SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) – A foundation dedicated to helping South Korean women who were sexually abused by Japan during its colonial occupation period (1910-45) will be launched next week, informed sources said Sunday. In December, South Korea and Japan reached a landmark deal in which Tokyo apologized for its colonial-era atrocities and agreed [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) – A Seoul court on Thursday ruled in favor of the government and dismissed a compensation suit filed by South Koreans who survived the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings in Japan. The Seoul Southern District Court turned down the suit filed by 230 victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Asian victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery denounced the agreement reached by Seoul and Tokyo last year by claiming their views were not properly considered. Wrapping up the 14th Asian Solidarity Conference for the Issue of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan, the surviving victims adopted a resolution saying the [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and Japan will hold director-general-level talks this week to discuss a broad range of issues, including follow-up measures related to Japan’s wartime sexual enslavement of Korean women, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Monday. It said the meeting set for Tuesday in Tokyo will be attended by Chung Byung-won, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — President Park Geun-hye will meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe next week, Cheong Wa Dae said Wednesday, in the first bilateral summit between leaders of the two neighbors in more than three years. Park has so far shunned a bilateral meeting with Abe due to disputes over shared [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea is pushing for the UNESCO listing of documentary heritage related to Japan’s wartime forced labor of Koreans, diplomatic sources said Sunday. The move is apparently intended to counter the July listing of 23 Japanese industrial facilities, where many Koreans were forced to work under harsh conditions during World [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — All eyes are on the female honor guards that will participate in the formal military inspection celebrating the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in China. The Chinese media has introduced female honor guards in training. The average height of the women is 5 foot 8 inches, and their [...]