Korea lost a Unesco vote to add Japan's Hashima Island issue to the agenda, failing to hold Japan accountable for its ...

The presidential office on Tuesday expressed regret as South Korea's bid to bring Japan's tepid efforts to address wartime ...

By Kim Hyelin The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on July 7 expressed regret over the rejection of a UNESCO vote on verification ...

South Korea has failed to place Japan’s failure to address colonial-era forced labor at UNESCO-listed Meiji Industrial ...

SEOUL, July 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korea on Monday made an unsuccessful attempt to bring Japan's tepidly insufficient efforts to ...

The bid was thwarted after Seoul's proposal was put to a vote during a session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee (WHC) ...

The South Korean government initially opposed the registration, saying that there were insufficient explanations about laborers from the Korean Peninsula who worked at the sites.

Among the 23 sites, Koreans were forcibly mobilized at seven — including the coal mines on Japan’s Hashima Island, also known as Battleship Island.

South Korea lost its bid to spotlight Japan’s longstanding failure to fulfill its promise to address its historical ...