GWANGJU, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder visited on Monday surviving South Korean victims of sexual slavery during World War II, expressing regret over Japan’s refusal to apologize for its wartime atrocities. Schroeder arrived at the House of Sharing in the afternoon, a shelter on the outskirts of Seoul set up [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Another South Korean woman who was forced into sexual servitude by Japan during World War II died Monday, a civic group said, reducing the total number of the country’s surviving victims to 36. The Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan said that Ha [...]
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, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s state history institute on Friday released new documents substantiating the Japanese military’s involvement in operating front-line brothels during World War II. The National Institute of Korean History (NIKH) made public interrogation reports written by the Allied Forces’ Translator and Interpreter Section, a unit founded in September 1942, [...]
CLIFFSIDE PARK, New Jersey, Jul. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A monument was unveiled in New Jersey Wednesday to commemorate the Korean women who were forced into sexual slavery for Japanese troops during World War II. The marble tablet was erected by the local Korean community in front of Trinity Episcopal Church near Cliffside Park during [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea plans to establish a national memorial day to remember the country’s “comfort women,” victims of sex crimes committed by Japan during the second World War, according to a state policy blueprint announced Wednesday. The government said it has approved a plan by the State Affairs Planning Advisory [...]
SEOUL, July 10 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s Gender Equality Minister Chung Huyn-back said Monday the government plans to set up a museum for Korean victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery in Seoul, in an apparent show of the new Moon Jae-in government’s resolve to sternly deal with Japan’s wartime human rights violation. “The government [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The first video footage showing women presumed to be Korean sex slaves for Japanese troops during World War II was discovered in the United States, the Seoul city government said Wednesday. The human rights center at Seoul National University unveiled the video filmed in 1944 of seven female captives [...]
GEORGIA, AMERICA Jun. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite strong Japanese opposition, with one senior Atlanta-based Japanese diplomat implying the victims of Japan’s wartime sex slavery were ‘paid prostitutes’, the latest statue in memory of the so-called comfort women is set to be unveiled Friday in the city of Brookhaven, Georgia. It’s the third statue to [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea Tuesday denounced the Japanese consul general based in Atlanta, the United States, for his recent remarks disparaging Korean women who were forced into sexual service for front-line Japanese soldiers during World War II. In a recent media interview, Takashi Shinozuka, the consul general of Japan in Atlanta, [...]