SEOUL/NAGOYA, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean statue symbolizing Japan’s sexual enslavement of women from Korea and elsewhere in Asia was put back on display Tuesday at a major Japanese art show in Nagoya after its controversial withdrawal from the show. The statue, representing Korean women who were forced into sexual service for [...]
JEONJU, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Sagac Sagac Ltd., a South Korean social firm, gave out hand-made girl statues in exchange for tumblers and mugs on Wednesday at the North Jeolla Provincial Office in Jeonju. The company, located in Iksan, North Jeolla Province, prepared 814 statues made by artists and students to commemorate August 14, [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Yi Eun-hi, executive director at Vereins Punggyeong Weltkulturen (Pung-Gyeong Global Cultural Association) has been leading a project to install a “comfort woman” statue at Bonn Women’s Museum in Germany. This, if realized, will be the second comfort woman statue in Europe after the one erected at the Nepal Himalaya [...]