BUSAN, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – A new attempt to erect a statue representing Japanese wartime sex slaves, or comfort women, in Busan failed Wednesday, with intervention from district officials and the police. Some 150 members of a civic group tried to set up the statue on the sidewalk adjacent to the Japanese Consulate at [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – A foundation dedicated to supporting South Korean women forced into wartime brothels for the Japanese military said Friday that five more victims have expressed their intent to accept compensation disbursed by the Japanese government, bring the total to 34 out of the 46 women still alive. The Reconciliation and [...]
SANGJU, South Korea, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Sangju’s local religious and civic groups unveiled a comfort woman statue on Monday, symbolizing Korean women who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II. The statue is a replica of the one set up in 2011 in front of the Japanese [...]
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 [...]