Actress Song Hye-kyo has collaborated with Seo Kyung-duk, a professor at Sungshin Women s University and an active promoter of Korea, to donate 10,000 guidebooks on Korea s historic sites in Hawaii to the Center for Korean Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says he is considering expressing his solidarity with Korean residents in the Utoro district in Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, which became a target of hate crime in 2021.
Actress Song Hye-kyo and Professor Seo Kyung-duk - an active promoter of Korea - have donated 10,000 Korean/English guidebooks to Utoro Peace Memorial Museum, Japan, in celebration of Oct. 9 Hangeul (Korean alphabet) Day. Utoro is a neighborhood near Kyoto where some 1,300 Koreans were forced into labor for Japans military during World War II.
A serial arson case that occurred last year poses the weighty question of how we can build a genuinely inclusive society by eliminating malicious discrimination based on race or ethnicity.