SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean American youth recently published a book about Korean victims of Japan’s wartime sex slavery. Titled “Peace to the Comfort Women,” the book was published by the Hwarang Youth Foundation, which carries essays and drawings about former sex slaves, euphemistically called comfort women, written or drawn by Korean American teenagers. The book contains a thank-you [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The late Kim Bok-dong, a former sex slavery victim-turned human rights activist, received Wednesday a posthumous award from Amnesty International in recognition of her passion for and efforts toward the human rights of sex slavery victims. The Korean branch of the U.K.-based non-governmental organization has chosen the late activist [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A civic organization representing Korean women forced to work at Japan’s wartime military brothels said Tuesday it is pushing ahead with a project to establish a center in the United States to pay tribute to Kim Bok-dong, a late human rights activist and symbolic figure among the victims. Tuesday [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A winter chill on Wednesday could not silence the voices that for nearly three decades have been calling for Japan’s apology over wartime sex slavery, a mission that has gained urgency as the few remaining victims continue to age. A few hundred people, including activists, students and one of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A lawsuit filed by several South Korean victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery over a 2015 agreement between the two countries was settled Thursday in a court arbitration in which the government in Seoul agreed to deny the deal’s validity and vowed continued efforts to help regain the victims’ [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Heavy rain could not stop Kim Bok-dong, 92, from staging a solo protest in a wheelchair in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the thick of Monday’s rush hour. The victim of Japan’s forced sexual slavery is the first in a line of others to follow to [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The first video footage showing women presumed to be Korean sex slaves for Japanese troops during World War II was discovered in the United States, the Seoul city government said Wednesday. The human rights center at Seoul National University unveiled the video filmed in 1944 of seven female captives [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea and China have called for a temporary truce over THAAD woes after controversy erupted when APA Hotel, a Japanese hotel chain, placed history books denying Japan’s wartime sex slavery and the Nanking Massacre at its locations. “The boycott against APA Hotel was introduced to the Chinese public through [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – A dozen South Korean victims of sexual slavery by Japanese troops during its colonial occupation period (1910-45) filed a suit against the government on Tuesday over a landmark agreement it signed with Japan last year, a local foundation said. The Foundation for Justice and Remembrance for the Issue of [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Police on Friday apprehended a 33-year-old woman who struck a statue symbolizing the victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery with a hammer. The woman, who has a history of schizophrenia, was caught at around 12:30 p.m. after she hit the statue in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul three [...]