BERLIN, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — With just a week left before a deadline to dismantle a comfort woman statue in Berlin, a Korean civic group has filed an injunction against the local district office, seeking to preserve the memorial that has become a focal point of historical and diplomatic tensions. The Korea Verband, a [...]
GIMHAE, South Korea, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – A comfort woman statue was erected on Monday in an otolaryngology (ear-nose-and-throat) clinic in Gimhae, marking the first time that a monument of the sort has been set up indoors, and funded entirely by an individual, hospital director Jung Tae-gi. The 13-million-won ($11,473) statue resembles most of [...]
SEOCHEON, South Korea, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – A new comfort woman statue, also known as the statue of peace, was erected Tuesday in Seocheon County, South Cheongcheong Province, becoming the 56th such statue to be established globally. The statue was funded by the county residents, who struggled for the past two months to find [...]
BUSAN, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The civic organization that erected in Busan last week a “comfort woman” statue representing the victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery is now attempting to have it designated as a public sculpture. Members of the organization tried to install the statue last Wednesday in front of the city’s Japanese [...]
BUSAN, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – On Wednesday, a civic organization tried to erect a statue representing comfort women – Korean sex slave victims of the Japanese military during the Second World War – in front of the Japanese consulate in Busan. The attempt failed when Dong District officials and the police intervened, and forcefully [...]