SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The veterans ministry said Tuesday it will hold a lighting ceremony in Seoul this week to honor South Korean service members killed during military clashes with North Korea while defending the western maritime border. The three-day ceremony will begin Wednesday evening at Cheonggye Plaza in central Seoul, illuminating 55 [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Two North Koreans aboard a wooden boat drifting in the Yellow Sea were discovered earlier this month and are now under questioning, military officials said Friday. The military took the two men into custody after a P-3 maritime patrol aircraft discovered the boat in waters 170 kilometers west of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to conduct an artificial rain experiment over the Yellow Sea later this week to analyze the method’s effect on reducing fine dust pollution, government officials said Wednesday. The rare experiment is to be jointly carried out by the National Institute of Meteorological Research (NIMR) and the [...]
NORTH JEOLLA, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — “In the past there have been rare cases where moths from the sub-tropics were discovered in the island regions of the West Sea [Yellow Sea], but this is the first time a species of giant moth like the tropical swallowtail moth has been found.” Those were the words [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — An autopsy of a dead turtle captured last month in the Yellow Sea revealed a startling amount of plastic waste inside the animal’s stomach, pointing to the problem of marine pollution in South Korean waters. The loggerhead sea turtle captured in a net last month off the coast of an [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea has sold fishing rights in the East Sea to China, in addition to the ones it sold in the Yellow Sea, a government source said Thursday. The source from the intelligence agency said US$75 million coming from these fishing license sales annually goes to North Korean leader [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea on Thursday threatened to make a “merciless” retaliation against South Korea, claiming that Seoul repeatedly violated its territorial waters and airspace off its western coast. South Korea’s reconnaissance drones made flights over the Yellow Sea along the de facto western maritime boundary on Tuesday and intruded three [...]