SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The mayor of Berlin, Kai Wegner, who has publicly opposed the continued presence of a statue commemorating victims of wartime sexual slavery, known as “comfort women,” has now reportedly exerted pressure to cut funding for the civic group responsible for erecting the memorial, according to local media reports. German [...]
SEOUL & ROMA, Jun. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – A “Statue of Peace” commemorating victims of wartime sexual slavery was unveiled on the Mediterranean coast of Sardinia on June 22, immediately igniting a diplomatic dispute. The statue, erected in the town of Stintino, faced challenges from its inception, reflecting the ongoing tensions surrounding these memorials worldwide [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — An Israeli law professor, noted for his effort to rectify a Harvard professor’s disputed paper on the 1923 massacre of Koreans in Japan, has said that he visited a statue symbolizing Korean victims of Tokyo’s wartime sexual slavery earlier this week. In an email to Yonhap News Agency, Alon [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
WIESENT, Germany, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) – A statue of a girl symbolizing victims who were sexually enslaved by Japanese troops during its occupation of the Korean Peninsula (1910-45) was erected in Germany’s southeastern municipality of Wiesent on Wednesday. The erection ceremony of the “comfort women” statue was held at the Nepal Himalaya Pavillon, a [...]