SEOUL, Apr. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean human rights organization has strongly condemned the Japanese government’s recent assertion in its annual diplomatic report that the issue of Korean women who were forced into sexual slavery for Japanese troops during World War II has been resolved. In a statement, the Korea Council for Justice and [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A local court’s order for Japan to disclose its state assets in South Korea to pay compensation to Korean victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery was aborted due to Tokyo’s refusal to comply, judicial sources said Friday. The Seoul Central District Court on Thursday dismissed the case pertaining to [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Japanese right-wing extremists were seen insulting and threatening the director of a documentary film about the life and testimony of Lee Yong-soo, a 93-year-old victim of the Japanese military’s sexual slavery during World War II. Last week, Britain’s Channel 4 aired the Japanese Wartime Sex Slave episode for “Unreported [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A second-generation Korean-German designer has embarked on a joint project with friends to develop a virtual statue of peace by using spare time after work or during weekends, as Japan continues to push for the removal of the Statue of Peace in Berlin, which symbolizes Korean victims of Japan’s [...]
SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The Philadelphia City Council has adopted a resolution condemning a professor of Harvard University for describing victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery as prostitutes in an academic paper. “On behalf of the survivors, and for women and girls around the world, we must continue to push back on dangerous [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A grandson of a legendary Korean independence fighter said Tuesday that he will reject a request from the Harvard president to reconsider his decision not to donate his family’s historical archives over a controversial paper portraying wartime sexual slaves as prostitutes. Philip Ahn Cuddy, the grandson of Ahn Chang-ho, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A grandson of a renowned Korean independence fighter said Thursday that he had sent a letter to Harvard University’s president to end any discussions about donating his historical archives due to a professor’s article depicting Japan’s wartime sexual slavery as voluntary prostitution. In an email and phone interview with [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The foreign ministry said Tuesday that international courtesy for foreign leaders should be taken into consideration, after local media reported on a pair of bronze statues at a local botanical garden of a man bowing on his knees before a wartime sexual slavery victim. The statues sparked controversy, as [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A college bulletin board posted a job recruitment notice that suggested a good salary and comfortable employment conditions. However, it contained an ingenious twist. On Tuesday, a notice was posted on the Daegu Catholic University bulletin board and social media sites such as Facebook that offered a salary of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Japanese fashion retailer Uniqlo said Sunday that it will suspend a new advertisement following allegations that the advertisement defamed victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery. Uniqlo’s latest commercial, aired globally, sparked suspicions in South Korea that it could be intended to ridicule sexual slavery victims due to a difference [...]