SANGJU, South Korea, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Sangju’s local religious and civic groups unveiled a comfort woman statue on Monday, symbolizing Korean women who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II. The statue is a replica of the one set up in 2011 in front of the Japanese [...]
SUWON, South Korea, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – A girl statue, symbolizing victims who were sexually enslaved by Japanese troops during its occupation of the Korean Peninsula (1910-45), will be erected in Germany’s southwestern city by the end of this year, a local mayor said Monday. The city of Suwon, south of Seoul, has reached [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – A monument to comfort women, a statue of a little Korean girl, now sits together with a statue of a Chinese girl. On October 28, nine girls and three boys wearing black and white traditional clothes pulled on a rope to reveal the statues of a Korean girl and [...]