On Tuesday, Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and his South Korean counterpart Cho Tae-yul held a meeting on the sidelines of the G7 meeting in Italy. Per South Korea, the two agreed to properly manage ...
South Korea expressed "regret" Tuesday over a memorial ceremony organised by Japan to honour victims of wartime forced labour at an infamous mine, including many Koreans, saying Tokyo had not met the ...
South Korea commemorated wartime Korean forced labourers at Japan’s Sado gold mines in a ceremony Monday, a day after boycotting a similar event organised by Japan, as tensions over historical ...
South Korea held its own memorial event for victims of forced labor during World War II, sidestepping a Japanese-organized event amidst ongoing tensions. The diplomatic incident arose over a disputed ...