Podcast: Park calls on Japan, the new chief of staff, and schools reduce meal programs
Today on The Korea Times Podcast: President Park calls on Japan to genuinely reflect on its past during her March 1st address as her new Chief of Staff settles in. Plus schools reduce the number of free lunches and ATMs will no longer take older cards.Park renews call for Japan's apologyPresident Park Geun-hye renewed a call for Japan to own up to its wartime atrocities, including the sexual enslavement of Asian women, before jointly ushering in a new era of partnership.“It is time for Korea and Japan to write a new history together for another 50 years, just as Germany and France became new leaders in the building of a new Europe after overcoming conflict and hostilities between each other,” President Park said in her March First speech, commemorating Korea’s 1919 nationwide uprising movement against Japan’s 1910-45 colonial occupation of the peninsula.Park names spymaster as chief of staffFriday, President Park Geun-hye named National Intelligence Service Director Lee Byung-kee as her new chief of staff. Lee's deputy Lee Byung-ho was nominated as National In
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