WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A statue symbolizing Korean women forced into sexual slavery for Japanese troops during World War II will be installed in Virginia, near Washington, this week, organizers said Tuesday. The bronze statue of a girl was brought to Washington nearly three years ago in November 2016, but was stored at [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — In St. Mary’s Square, San Francisco, a direction sign has been installed to make it easier to find the location of the Comfort Women memorial. On Sunday, the public commemorated the second anniversary of the establishment of the memorial inside and at the entrance of St. Mary’s Square. On [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean rapper and television personality Defconn, known for his love for the Japanese manga series “Neon Genesis Evangelion,” has recently renounced his enthusiasm for anime. Defconn posted a YouTube video in which he tore down posters of Evangelion characters that were hanging in his room. “I’m thinking of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A young adult novel on Japan’s wartime sexual slavery, which was recently translated into English, will hit the shelves in the United States and other countries this year to recount the devastation of the Japanese wartime atrocity, according to its publisher Thursday. The 248-page novel, “Trampled Blossoms: What They [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Artists participating in the Aichi Triennale 2019 are demanding that their work be withdrawn following the organizers’ removal of the Statue of a Girl of Peace. South Korean artists Park Chan-kyong and Lim Min-ouk asked the Triennale secretariat to remove their work from the exhibition as a protest against [...]
JEONJU, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Sagac Sagac Ltd., a South Korean social firm, gave out hand-made girl statues in exchange for tumblers and mugs on Wednesday at the North Jeolla Provincial Office in Jeonju. The company, located in Iksan, North Jeolla Province, prepared 814 statues made by artists and students to commemorate August 14, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will hold the second-ever government-hosted national ceremony to commemorate International Memorial Day for Comfort Women on Wednesday. About 300 people from all walks of life, including elderly women sexually enslaved by the imperial Japanese army, will take part in the ceremony at the Kim Koo Museum and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A new “comfort women” memorial statue will be unveiled in Seoul this week, when the nation marks International Memorial Day for Comfort Women amid its intensifying diplomatic and trade conflict with Japan, officials said Monday. The new statue, made by a nonprofit association of Korean residents in San Francisco [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The host of the Aichi Triennale International Contemporary Art Festival, one of Japan’s largest international arts exhibitions, has shut down one of its sections that displayed the “Statue of a Girl of Peace,” symbolizing wartime “comfort women.” In response, foreign artists and feminists have staged a protest by becoming [...]
BERLIN/TOKYO, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan has allegedly pressured a German museum to remove a statue of a girl representing victims of Japan’s World War II-era sexual slavery from display, a South Korean civic group said Sunday amid escalating political and trade tensions between the two neighboring countries. According to Korea Verband, a nonprofit [...]