SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and Japan will hold director-general-level talks this week to discuss a broad range of issues, including follow-up measures related to Japan’s wartime sexual enslavement of Korean women, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Monday. It said the meeting set for Tuesday in Tokyo will be attended by Chung Byung-won, [...]
GWANGJU, South Korea, Jun. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A dozen Korean victims of Japan’s wartime sex slavery said Tuesday they will take Japan to court in the U.S. unless Tokyo apologizes by the end of this month for the atrocities done to them. The 12, including Yoo Hee-nam and Kang Il-chul, plan to lodge a [...]
GWANGJU, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Another Korean sex-slavery victim passed away on June 11 in Gwangju. Now, only 51 women are left as survivors among 238 Korean women officially registered as victims of Japan’s sex slavery enforcement during World War Ⅱ. Kim Eo-Hwan was born in 1934, and forced into sex slavery at the [...]
“It is my understanding that the U.S. government, lawmakers, scholars and the press shared a very solid consensus about the issue of the shared history between South Korea and Japan. The U.S. puts significance on its alliance with Seoul in terms of strategic values … So I’d like to say that we deserve to have [...]
“Recently, representatives from the Japanese government and others have reached out to McGraw-Hill Education asking the company to change the description of ‘comfort women’ in one of our publications.” “Scholars are aligned behind the historical fact of ‘comfort women’ and we unequivocally stand behind the writing, research and presentation of our authors” – [...]