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Korean Students at Harvard Demand Professor’s Apology over Controversial Claims on Comfort Women

SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean students at Harvard University have strongly criticized a professor over his controversial claim that Japan’s wartime sexual slavery was actually voluntary prostitution, demanding its immediate withdrawal and his official apology to victims. Harvard Korean Society made the demand in a statement on its website after Harvard Law School [...]

Korean Harvard Students Decry Professor’s Claims on Sex Slaves as ‘Incorrect and Misleading’

SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of Korean students at Harvard Law School has decried a professor’s recent controversial claims that victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery were willing prostitutes as “factually incorrect and misleading.” On Thursday, the Korean Association of Harvard Law School issued a statement criticizing a recent article by J. [...]