S. Korea, Japan fail to reach deal on UNESCO row
Foreign affairsJun 9, 2015
South Korea and Japan ended another round of talks Tuesday with no breakthrough in their sparring over Japan's bid to put some historical sites on the UNESCO World Heritage list, an official here said.Japan has applied to list 23 historical industrial facilities, including coal mines and shipyards, under the period of 1850-1910.South Korea is strongly against the bid as it includes seven sites where nearly 60,000 Koreans were forced to work especially in the 1940s during Japan's 1910-45 occupati