Moon: South Korea will join hands with Japan if it chooses dialogue, cooperation
Seoul: President Moon Jae-in said Thursday that South Korea will “gladly join hands” with Japan for East Asian prosperity if it chooses dialogue and cooperation to end an escalated trade row rooted in wartime history. In a Liberation Day address marking the end of Japan’s colonial rule of Korea in 1945, Moon also laid […]
Scholar discovers original copies of 1919 Swiss resolution calling for Korean independence
A South Korean scholar said Wednesday he has discovered the original copies of a resolution adopted at the 1919 International Socialist Conference in the Swiss town of Lucerne that show the Korean provisional government’s diplomatic efforts to call for Korean independence from Japan. Although the resolution itself has been known to Korean scholars due to […]