Japanese Occupation Archives

Attempt to Install New “Comfort Woman Statue” Foiled

BUSAN, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – A new attempt to erect a statue representing Japanese wartime sex slaves, or comfort women, in Busan failed Wednesday, with intervention from district officials and the police. Some 150 members of a civic group tried to set up the statue on the sidewalk adjacent to the Japanese Consulate at [...]

Seoul Photo Exhibit Highlights Turbulent Era Following the End of WWII

SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – It has been over 70 years since Korea claimed independence from its most painful history, the Japanese occupation. Korea’s reclamation of freedom was made official on August 15, 1945. But the years that followed were a period of confusion and chaos. Highlighting the turbulent era, the Seoul Museum of [...]