SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The first video footage showing women presumed to be Korean sex slaves for Japanese troops during World War II was discovered in the United States, the Seoul city government said Wednesday. The human rights center at Seoul National University unveiled the video filmed in 1944 of seven female captives [...]
GEORGIA, AMERICA Jun. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite strong Japanese opposition, with one senior Atlanta-based Japanese diplomat implying the victims of Japan’s wartime sex slavery were ‘paid prostitutes’, the latest statue in memory of the so-called comfort women is set to be unveiled Friday in the city of Brookhaven, Georgia. It’s the third statue to [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea Tuesday denounced the Japanese consul general based in Atlanta, the United States, for his recent remarks disparaging Korean women who were forced into sexual service for front-line Japanese soldiers during World War II. In a recent media interview, Takashi Shinozuka, the consul general of Japan in Atlanta, [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The foreign ministry plans to launch a special team to look into the controversial agreement signed with Japan on its wartime sexual enslavement of Korean women, a ministry official said Friday. The move is in line with President Moon Jae-in’s campaign pledge to review the agreement signed in December [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Biziwire) – Three victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery came forward on Thursday in support of the beleaguered nominee for foreign minister who faces objections from opposition parties. The three women in their 90s held a press conference in central Seoul to voice their backing of Kang Kyung-wha, a former U.N. [...]
LOS ANGELES, Jun. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid growing support for so-called ‘comfort women’ statues in the U.S., Japanese government officials are allegedly continuing their efforts to thwart the spread of the artwork commemorating the victims of the Second World War. The small city of Brookhaven, a community of around 50,000 residents in the state of [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s foreign minister-designate said Friday that the victims should be at the center of any efforts to resolve the long-running dispute over Japan’s wartime sexual slavery of Korean women. Kang Kyung-wha made the remarks following her earlier visit to a house sheltering some of those victims. Known for [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Courting North Korea’s dysfunctional leader Kim Jong-un, and soothing tensions over the THAAD missile system with China – a conflict expected to cost South Korea billions of dollars – are likely the most urgent diplomatic issues to be tackled by newly elected President Moon Jae-in. But to its east, [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) – A Japanese Catholic priest, Jun Nakai, expressed remorse and support at a demonstration yesterday for the comfort woman statue near the Japan Consulate General in Busan. “When I saw a documentary four years ago about comfort women, I was shocked to hear from one survivor that the reason she asks [...]
Gangwon Province, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) – High school students in Gangwon Province’s Cheorwon County went viral on social media after making badges in commemoration of comfort women who were forced into sexual slavery by the imperial Japanese Army during the Second World War. Fourteen students from Cheorwon High School’s history club “Jiphyeonjeon” and another history [...]