SUWON, South Korea, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – A girl statue, symbolizing victims who were sexually enslaved by Japanese troops during its occupation of the Korean Peninsula (1910-45), will be erected in Germany’s southwestern city by the end of this year, a local mayor said Monday. The city of Suwon, south of Seoul, has reached [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – A dozen South Korean victims of sexual slavery by Japanese troops during its colonial occupation period (1910-45) filed a suit against the government on Tuesday over a landmark agreement it signed with Japan last year, a local foundation said. The Foundation for Justice and Remembrance for the Issue of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea has decided to use Japan’s comfort women fund to financially assist Korean women sexually enslaved by Japanese troops during Japan’s colonial-rule of the Korean Peninsula decades ago, the foreign ministry said Thursday. The government will provide 100 million won (US$89,581) to surviving victims who were forced to [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The mayor of Seoul, Park Won-soon, announced that the city would take responsibility for registering sex slaves’ records with UNESCO’s ‘Memory of the World’ programme if the Korean government cancels its own plans due to budget cuts. UNESCO’s Memory of the World Programme was initiated to protect the “documentary heritage of [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Asian victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery denounced the agreement reached by Seoul and Tokyo last year by claiming their views were not properly considered. Wrapping up the 14th Asian Solidarity Conference for the Issue of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan, the surviving victims adopted a resolution saying the [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and Japan will hold director-general-level talks this week to discuss a broad range of issues, including follow-up measures related to Japan’s wartime sexual enslavement of Korean women, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Monday. It said the meeting set for Tuesday in Tokyo will be attended by Chung Byung-won, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – A local film about the painful life of South Korean sex slaves during World War II, tops pre-sale reservation rates in the local box office, a market tracker said Wednesday. “Spirits’ Homecoming,” released on Wednesday nationwide, enjoys a reservation rate of 27.2 percent, leading Hollywood blockbuster “Deadpool” and Disney [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – A monument to comfort women, a statue of a little Korean girl, now sits together with a statue of a Chinese girl. On October 28, nine girls and three boys wearing black and white traditional clothes pulled on a rope to reveal the statues of a Korean girl and [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16(Korea Bizwire) -Lee Yong-soo(87), a surviving’ comfort woman’ to the Japanese army,has urged San Francisco’s city council to build a monument dedicated to comfort women. Lee was present at a conference at the San Francisco city council on September 15, and plead with officials to pass are solution to build a monument to [...]
“It’s important to clearly resolve the comfort women issue in a way that meets the expectations of the victims or the international community. If we clearly resolve the comfort women issue, in that itself, there will be no reason to discuss it again.” “What’s important is to restore the honor of the 50 victims before [...]