BERLIN, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A Berlin district council has passed a resolution seeking to keep a statue of a girl symbolizing the victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery permanently installed at a public site, officials and reports said Wednesday. The resolution, approved by a majority vote at Berlin’s Mitte district parliament on Tuesday [...]
BERLIN/SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A Berlin district council has adopted a resolution urging municipal authorities to retract a removal order for a statue symbolizing victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery, reports and officials said Saturday. The council of Mitte Borough, a central Berlin district, voted overwhelmingly in favor of the resolution in a [...]
BERLIN/SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A Berlin district office has withheld its order to remove a statue symbolizing victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery following protests from activists and citizens. The Mitte district office said in a statement Tuesday that the order to remove “The Statue of Peace” by Wednesday was no longer applicable [...]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A statue symbolizing Korean women forced into sexual slavery for Japanese troops during World War II will be installed in Virginia, near Washington, this week, organizers said Tuesday. The bronze statue of a girl was brought to Washington nearly three years ago in November 2016, but was stored at [...]
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Three years ago, a statue of a girl was brought from South Korea to Washington to raise awareness of Japan’s enslavement of Korean women in military brothels during World War II. Despite persistent efforts by South Korean activists to get it installed, that statue has remained in a warehouse [...]