SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The host of the Aichi Triennale International Contemporary Art Festival, one of Japan’s largest international arts exhibitions, has shut down one of its sections that displayed the “Statue of a Girl of Peace,” symbolizing wartime “comfort women.” In response, foreign artists and feminists have staged a protest by becoming [...]
BERLIN/TOKYO, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan has allegedly pressured a German museum to remove a statue of a girl representing victims of Japan’s World War II-era sexual slavery from display, a South Korean civic group said Sunday amid escalating political and trade tensions between the two neighboring countries. According to Korea Verband, a nonprofit [...]
NAGOYA, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A statue of a girl representing victims of Japan’s World War II-era sexual slavery, which has been on display at an international arts festival in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, was ordered by Japanese officials to be removed, the festival’s organizers said Saturday. The statue, which symbolizes Korean women who [...]
BUSAN, Mar. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The mayor of the city of Glendale, near Los Angeles, will visit the South Korean port city of Busan this month to view a statue symbolizing Korean women forced to work in wartime Japanese military brothels, a statement from the assembly of Busan’s Haeundae Ward said Sunday. Glendale Mayor [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A weekly civic rally calling for the Japanese government to give an official apology and compensation to the Korean victims of the Japanese army’s World War II sexual enslavement marked its 27th anniversary Wednesday. The first Wednesday rally was held Jan. 8, 1992, on the occasion of then Japanese [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Often-prickly relations between South Korea and Japan suffered another serious setback Wednesday, as Seoul made public its decision to dissolve a Tokyo-funded foundation on wartime sexual slavery. The Moon Jae-in administration’s move represents an effective nullification of a controversial accord in 2015 signed by the government of then President [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Fans of Korean boy band sensation BTS have started making donations to comfort women victims from the Japanese colonial era. According to the “House of Sharing” in Gwangju, Gyeonggi Province, over 130 separate donations totaling 3.5 million won have been wired to the foundation’s bank account since November 8, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Regarding the Japanese Self-Defense’s unwavering stance on hoisting the flag of the rising sun during an upcoming international naval review to be held in Jeju, participants at the weekly “Wednesday Demonstration” also criticized the decision. The civic group “Justice for the Comfort Women,” which held the 1,355th weekly Wednesday [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Two young Korean men have completed a 70-day bicycle journey from Los Angeles to New York to spread awareness of the forced sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War II. College students Baek Hyeon-jae and Lee Ho-jun set off from the beach in Santa Monica, L.A., on June [...]
LOS ANGELES, Jun. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Two South Korean college students will set out on a trans-American bicycle ride this week, seeking to boost global awareness of Korean women forced into sexual slavery for Japanese troops during World War II. The students — 25-year-old Baek Hyun-jae and 22-year-old Lee Ho-jun — recently arrived in [...]