SUWON, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s Gyeonggi province is launching a “Delivery of Remembrance Flowers” campaign ahead of the August 14 commemoration day for Korean victims of Japanese military sexual slavery during World War II. The campaign calls on 139 selected participants from across the nation to deliver flowers to the same number of [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan’s failure to recognize its wrongdoings during World War II should fundamentally be addressed and dealt with from the perspective of rectifying a violation of human rights, experts said Wednesday. “The interpretation issue of forced mobilization and forced labor is not just an issue between the two countries (South [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan implemented research on the extent of Korean labor resources on the Korean Peninsula that could be forcibly taken overseas during World War II as part of its war efforts, according to documents released by the National Archives of Korea on Thursday. The Japanese Government General of Korea sent [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Taro Kono, Japan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, said that he was “not at all thinking about a losing ruling” regarding a court decision to be made today on whether a Japanese steel firm must compensate Korean victims forced to work in its factories. In an interview with Sankei Shimbun, [...]
TOKYO, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A Japanese Buddhist temple has conducted a memorial for 35 sets of remains belonging to Korean people brought to Japan to work for its factories and military during World War II before they are sent home this week, a South Korean civic group said Monday. Representatives of the civic [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – A victim of Japan’s forced labor during its colonial rule decades ago died on Monday at the age of 89, civic group officials said. Choi Jang-seop was one of hundreds of Koreans who were conscripted into forced labor on Japan’s Hashima Island as part of the country’s mobilization of [...]
GWANGJU, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean court on Friday ordered Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to pay four Korean victims of wartime forced labor between 100 million won (US$87,413) to 150 million won each in compensation. It is the second time this week that the Gwangju District Court has ruled in favor of [...]
BUSAN, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – A Japanese man donated a photo of a Korean victim of Japan’s wartime sex slavery to a local museum on Tuesday as an apology for what he said is an act against humanity. Jikai Taketomi, an official from a private war archive in Japan, offered some 30 photos, letters [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The first video footage showing women presumed to be Korean sex slaves for Japanese troops during World War II was discovered in the United States, the Seoul city government said Wednesday. The human rights center at Seoul National University unveiled the video filmed in 1944 of seven female captives [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The foreign ministry plans to launch a special team to look into the controversial agreement signed with Japan on its wartime sexual enslavement of Korean women, a ministry official said Friday. The move is in line with President Moon Jae-in’s campaign pledge to review the agreement signed in December [...]