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 [...]
“Apology is not a shameful thing. Japan’s past invasion of other nations itself is a ‘fact,’ regardless of disputes over details. Japan should admit what it did and apologize for that until other countries affected say ‘it’s enough.’” “Northeast Asia is in a big power shift with the rise of China and South Korea. There [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and Japan were to hold talks on Tokyo’s sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War II on Monday as the two historical rivals make efforts to improve their strained ties in a landmark year, Seoul’s foreign ministry said. Lee Sang-deok, Seoul’s chief delegate to the talks, plans [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – “Dokdo Bread” made by a baker in his 40’s is the talk of town in Pohang, a southeastern port city in South Korea. Kim Ki-seon, the baker, began baking the bread last year to protect Dokdo from Japan, after the news that Japan was making “Takeshima Bread.” With dough [...]
“Recently, representatives from the Japanese government and others have reached out to McGraw-Hill Education asking the company to change the description of ‘comfort women’ in one of our publications.” “Scholars are aligned behind the historical fact of ‘comfort women’ and we unequivocally stand behind the writing, research and presentation of our authors” – [...]