SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of Korean students at Harvard Law School has decried a professor’s recent controversial claims that victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery were willing prostitutes as “factually incorrect and misleading.” On Thursday, the Korean Association of Harvard Law School issued a statement criticizing a recent article by J. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The foreign ministry urged Japan to show sincere efforts to heal the wounds of its wartime sexual slavery victims after Tokyo’s top diplomat railed against a recent Seoul court ruling on the issue that was finalized Saturday. Earlier this month, the Seoul Central District Court ordered Tokyo to make [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha called for Japan to refrain from “excessive responses” to this week’s local court ruling ordering Tokyo to compensate victims of its wartime sexual slavery during phone talks with her Japanese counterpart on Saturday. Kang made the appeal in the phone call with Toshimitsu Motegi amid [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean victims of wartime sexual enslavement won their first legal victory Friday against the Japanese government in a landmark ruling. The Seoul Central District Court ordered Tokyo to make financial reparations of 100 million won (US$91,300) each to 12 “comfort women” who were dragged away from their homes [...]
BERLIN, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Hundreds of people staged a rally in Berlin on Tuesday to protest a district office’s order to remove a statue in the German capital symbolizing victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery. Some 300 activists and citizens gathered near the statue, formally called “The Statue of Peace,” in Berlin’s Mitte [...]
SEOUL/BERLIN, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Civic activists based in Germany are planning to apply for an injunction Monday against Berlin city authorities’ removal order for a statue erected in the German capital of a girl symbolizing Korean victims of wartime sexual slavery, informed local sources said. The injunction application will be filed by Korea [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea held various events to commemorate the international memorial day on Friday for Asian women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II. The government-led national ceremony marking the International Memorial Day for Comfort Women took place at the Hill of National Commemoration in [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) – “Grass,” a South Korean graphic novel on the topic of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery, received multiple nominations at a prestigious U.S. comic book industry award, according to a literary translation organization Wednesday. The 2019 graphic novel on “comfort women” by Kim Keum-suk was nominated for best writer/artist, best reality-based [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — With the spread of the coronavirus outbreak raising alarm across the country, regular Wednesday demonstrations demanding that Japan apologize for its wartime sexual slavery, protests that have been held continuously since 1992 have also been affected. On Wednesday, for the first time ever, the Korean Council for Justice and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A lawsuit filed by several South Korean victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery over a 2015 agreement between the two countries was settled Thursday in a court arbitration in which the government in Seoul agreed to deny the deal’s validity and vowed continued efforts to help regain the victims’ [...]