SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — An appeals court in Seoul overturned a lower-court acquittal of a professor and fined her on Friday, finding her guilty of charges that she defamed victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery with her book. The Seoul High Court handed down a fine of 10 million won (US$8,846) to Park [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean movie “I Can Speak”, which centers around the life of a former comfort woman during the Japanese occupation of Korea, has been nominated for an Asia Pacific Screen Award. South Korean actress Na Moon-hee, who plays the role of Okbun, a victim of sexual slavery by the imperial [...]
NEW YORK, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – A statue symbolizing the victims of Japanese wartime sexual slavery will be unveiled in New York this week, a local Korean association said Thursday. The girl statue will be installed inside the Museum of Korean American Heritage in Manhattan following an unveiling ceremony at the site on Friday. [...]
GWANGJU, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder visited on Monday surviving South Korean victims of sexual slavery during World War II, expressing regret over Japan’s refusal to apologize for its wartime atrocities. Schroeder arrived at the House of Sharing in the afternoon, a shelter on the outskirts of Seoul set up [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Another South Korean woman who was forced into sexual servitude by Japan during World War II died Monday, a civic group said, reducing the total number of the country’s surviving victims to 36. The Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan said that Ha [...]
YONGIN, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – In commemoration of the 72nd Independence Day of South Korea, a statue of a ‘comfort girl’ symbolizing victims of Japanese sex slavery before and during the Second World War, was erected in the Seoul suburb of Yongin City. The committee that had commissioned the statue was in attendance for [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s state history institute on Friday released new documents substantiating the Japanese military’s involvement in operating front-line brothels during World War II. The National Institute of Korean History (NIKH) made public interrogation reports written by the Allied Forces’ Translator and Interpreter Section, a unit founded in September 1942, [...]
CLIFFSIDE PARK, New Jersey, Jul. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A monument was unveiled in New Jersey Wednesday to commemorate the Korean women who were forced into sexual slavery for Japanese troops during World War II. The marble tablet was erected by the local Korean community in front of Trinity Episcopal Church near Cliffside Park during [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea plans to establish a national memorial day to remember the country’s “comfort women,” victims of sex crimes committed by Japan during the second World War, according to a state policy blueprint announced Wednesday. The government said it has approved a plan by the State Affairs Planning Advisory [...]
SEOUL, July 10 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s Gender Equality Minister Chung Huyn-back said Monday the government plans to set up a museum for Korean victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery in Seoul, in an apparent show of the new Moon Jae-in government’s resolve to sternly deal with Japan’s wartime human rights violation. “The government [...]