SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The trial of a Japanese right-wing politician accused of defacing a statue honoring World War II comfort women continues to face delays after 13 years, with the defendant failing to appear in court for the 27th time. Suzuki Nobuyuki, 60, was absent from his first scheduled trial at the Seoul [...]
SEOUL/BERLIN Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea voiced criticism Thursday over Japan’s call for the removal of a statue erected in Germany of a girl symbolizing Korean victims of wartime sexual slavery, calling it an act that goes against the spirit of its own apology. Last week, Tokyo expressed regret over the recent installation [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The late Kim Bok-dong, a former sex slavery victim-turned human rights activist, received Wednesday a posthumous award from Amnesty International in recognition of her passion for and efforts toward the human rights of sex slavery victims. The Korean branch of the U.K.-based non-governmental organization has chosen the late activist [...]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A statue symbolizing Korean victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery finally got ensconced in Virginia on Sunday, after being stored in a warehouse for three years due to Tokyo’s alleged efforts against its installation. A civic group pushing to erect the statue of a young girl commemorating the former [...]
SEOUL/NAGOYA, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean statue symbolizing Japan’s sexual enslavement of women from Korea and elsewhere in Asia was put back on display Tuesday at a major Japanese art show in Nagoya after its controversial withdrawal from the show. The statue, representing Korean women who were forced into sexual service for [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Yi Eun-hi, executive director at Vereins Punggyeong Weltkulturen (Pung-Gyeong Global Cultural Association) has been leading a project to install a “comfort woman” statue at Bonn Women’s Museum in Germany. This, if realized, will be the second comfort woman statue in Europe after the one erected at the Nepal Himalaya [...]
YONGIN, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – In commemoration of the 72nd Independence Day of South Korea, a statue of a ‘comfort girl’ symbolizing victims of Japanese sex slavery before and during the Second World War, was erected in the Seoul suburb of Yongin City. The committee that had commissioned the statue was in attendance for [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Georgia’s state capital is set to become the first major city in the United States to accommodate a comfort woman statue, a monument representing sex slavery victims of Japan’s colonial rule. Kim Baek-kyu, the former president of the Korean American Association of Greater Atlanta, said Wednesday (local time) that [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Police on Friday apprehended a 33-year-old woman who struck a statue symbolizing the victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery with a hammer. The woman, who has a history of schizophrenia, was caught at around 12:30 p.m. after she hit the statue in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul three [...]