In an exclusive interview, Unification Minister Kim Yung-ho discusses cooperation, resolving the abductions and his priorities for North Korean human rights.
A recent Chosun Ilbo article by a university professor in Japan backs South Korea's claims to Takeshima. Historian Masao Shimojo analyzes the historical facts.
South Korea's Supreme Court tells a lower court to acquit Park Yuha over her comfort women book. In another ruling, it orders the return of stolen...
When Professor Ramseyer wrote a response to his critics, it was met with defeated silence — a stark contrast to the storm of criticism his first...
Veteran journalist Kim Young-sam talks about the Yoon Suk-yeol Liberation Day speech and why it's important for South Korea to get its history straight.
A civil society group in South Korea wanted to welcome the Japanese prime minister to Seoul but was denied an assembly permit for their planned welcome...
The author identifies three issues with the latest proposal for compensating wartime Korean workers. For now, Japan should keep some distance from South Korea.
Like the "My Number Card" has shown, incentives work. Using mutual love of J-pop and K-pop, Japan and South Korea can turn around their relationship.
The wartime labor issue was resolved under a 1965 international agreement between Japan and South Korea establishing relations and settling all war era claims.
Healthy international relations can only be revived by tackling the root causes of soured relations between Japan and South Korea, says the group.
Healthy international relations cannot be established unless the lies surrounding the comfort women issue are recognized by the world, the group says.
A Japan Coast Guard official noted, “This behavior seems to contradict their professed desire for an improvement in Japan-South Korea ties.”