Doosan Infracore Co. has started operation of its new plant in China as it seeks to recapture the top spot in the earth-moving equipment market by rolling out compact excavators. The Korean engineering firm said Wednesday the facility in Suzhou in the eastern province of Jiangsu will churn out 9,800 eight-ton or smaller excavators annually. It has injected 72.9 billion won ($64.5 million) in the project launched in 2007.“Given the rapid advancement of local firms, the only way of surviving compe

Artists from here and abroad are to display works inspired by the House of Sharing in December. The Multi-Media Art Exhibition will center on themes of sexual slavery, human trafficking, and violence towards women.The “Liberating Herstories” exhibition will also feature paintings by former “comfort women,” who have used art as a form of therapy to exorcise the pain of their past experiences, such as a painting entitled “Punish the Responsible” by survivor Kang Duk-gyeong, which calls for vindica

One thousand protests on, sexual slavery victims still waiting for Japan’s ‘sorry’She did not think it would end in this way. But Wednesday Dec. 14 will mark the 1,000th and final weekly protest by Pak Ok-seon and other surviving “comfort women” in Korea. The survivors of mass organized sexual slavery at the hands of the Japanese military throughout the Asia-Pacific region up to World War II, have been demanding the Japanese government’s apology for almost twenty years.The women ― many of whom a

Violinist Kang Dong-suk is to be accompanied by the Shanghai Oriental Symphony Orchestra to perform in four cities in Korea to raise funds for children. The performances are to support a center for children from low income families. Kang Dong-suk’s Hope Concert will be staged from Sunday to Wednesday. This is the twelfth year the concerts have been held in conjunction with the international relief organization Korea Food for the Hungry International and GSK with the goal of brightening the futur