SEOUL, Jun. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul’s annual queer culture festival, one of the nation’s largest LGBTQ celebrations, took place on June 1 along Euljiro Street after being denied the use of Seoul Plaza by city authorities for the second consecutive year. Counterprotests erupted across the capital, contributing to traffic disruptions throughout the day. The Seoul [...]
PARIS/SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) – The K-pop singer and actress Yoona, who attended the Cannes Film Festival this month, has become embroiled in allegations of discriminatory behavior by a female security guard monitoring the red carpet. On May 19, Yoona, formerly of the hugely popular K-pop group Girls’ Generation, drew the spotlight at the 77th [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced on May 16 that it will provide an electronic newspaper service to 3,000 disabled individuals and their families, transitioning from the paper-based news previously distributed to over 1,000 facilities and organizations serving the disabled community. The Korea Disabled News, a specialized publication covering disability welfare [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean private information protection watchdog requested Chinese e-commerce giants Thursday to faithfully comply with the South Korean law on personal data protection, the agency said. Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) Vice Chairperson Choi Jang-hyuk made the request during a meeting in Beijing with officials from AliExpress, Temu [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean human rights organization has strongly condemned the Japanese government’s recent assertion in its annual diplomatic report that the issue of Korean women who were forced into sexual slavery for Japanese troops during World War II has been resolved. In a statement, the Korea Council for Justice and [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea “strongly” protested against Japan on Tuesday after Tokyo issued an annual diplomatic report renewing its territorial claims to the South’s easternmost islets of Dokdo. To lodge a protest over the report, South Korea’s foreign ministry called in Taisuke Mibae, the deputy chief of mission at the Japanese [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government decided Friday to allow an outdoor reading event to be held at Seoul Plaza in front of City Hall on May 31, effectively rejecting the request of an annual LGBTQ festival there. The LGBTQ festival was one of three events that sought to use the [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 2 (Korea Bizwire) –Nearly 250,000 illegal sexual videos were removed from the web last year, a 15 percent increase from the year before, data showed Tuesday. A total of 8,983 victims received help from the support center for online sexual abuse victims, up 12.6 percent year-on-year, according to a report by the Advocacy [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The chief of the National Human Rights Commission on Wednesday urged each party and candidate to refrain from hate speech ahead of the April 10 parliamentary elections. Song Doo-hwan, chairman of the commission, said in a statement that state institutions, such as the National Election Commission, should declare their [...]
TOKYO, Mar. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – In a defiant move, families of victims of forced labor during World War II, who have rejected South Korea’s proposed solution of third-party compensation, visited Japanese companies on March 25 to demand a direct apology and payment from the firms involved. However, their efforts were met with a [...]