Comfort Women Deal Archives

Government Launches Special Team to Review Comfort Women Deal with Japan

SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea officially launched a task force (TF) to review an agreement with Japan reached in 2015 to settle a long-standing bilateral feud over Japan’s imperial-era mobilization of Korean women as sex workers, the foreign ministry said Monday. The TF is tasked with fact-finding and assessing the processes leading up [...]

New Task Force Set to Review Controversial Comfort Women Deal

SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s foreign ministry said that it is making preparations to launch a task force to review a controversial deal reached in 2015 with Japan to address a long-standing rift between the neighbors over Tokyo’s wartime sexual slavery of Korean women. “(We) are in the middle of preparations for [...]