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 [...]
WIESENT, Germany, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) – A statue of a girl symbolizing victims who were sexually enslaved by Japanese troops during its occupation of the Korean Peninsula (1910-45) was erected in Germany’s southeastern municipality of Wiesent on Wednesday. The erection ceremony of the “comfort women” statue was held at the Nepal Himalaya Pavillon, a [...]
GIMHAE, South Korea, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – A comfort woman statue was erected on Monday in an otolaryngology (ear-nose-and-throat) clinic in Gimhae, marking the first time that a monument of the sort has been set up indoors, and funded entirely by an individual, hospital director Jung Tae-gi. The 13-million-won ($11,473) statue resembles most of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – South Koreans’ calls for the renegotiation of a 2015 Seoul-Tokyo deal on Japan’s sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War II have been rising amid the rekindling of a row between the two countries over symbols of the victims, according to poll results released by Gallup Korea on [...]
SEOCHEON, South Korea, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – A new comfort woman statue, also known as the statue of peace, was erected Tuesday in Seocheon County, South Cheongcheong Province, becoming the 56th such statue to be established globally. The statue was funded by the county residents, who struggled for the past two months to find [...]
ANYANG, South Korea, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – A comfort woman statue erected in front of the Japanese consulate in Busan last month has triggered yet another diplomatic clash between South Korea and Japan. The statue represents comfort women, sexual slavery victims of the Japanese military during its occupation of Korea. There are more than [...]
BUSAN, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The civic organization that erected in Busan last week a “comfort woman” statue representing the victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery is now attempting to have it designated as a public sculpture. Members of the organization tried to install the statue last Wednesday in front of the city’s Japanese [...]
BUSAN, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – On Wednesday, a civic organization tried to erect a statue representing comfort women – Korean sex slave victims of the Japanese military during the Second World War – in front of the Japanese consulate in Busan. The attempt failed when Dong District officials and the police intervened, and forcefully [...]