On 24th July, the five year anniversary of the adoption of a resolution about comfort women by the Japanese Army in the Visitor Center of the House of Commons was celebrated. Bill Pascrell, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, claimed that comfort women is not a problem only between Korea and Japan and must… Continue Reading »
Comfort Women Memorial in front of Japanese Embassy in Seoul In a parliamentary session last Friday, Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan stated his ministry was “willing to consider” dropping the term “comfort women” and changing it to “sex slaves” in official English-language documents. The issue of “comfort women”, a particularly sensitive subject in Korean-Japanese history, was… Continue Reading »
A museum, ‘The House of Memory, Commemoration, and Healing: REVISION’ in Sungsandong, Seoul opened for everyone on May 5th. The museum is constructed for Korean Comfort Women who were enslaved for sexual purposes by Japanese soldiers during World War II. The museum was originally planned to be built at Independence Park in the Seodaemoon,district in… Continue Reading »
In amidst the recent South Korean Constitutional Court ruling that the failure to act by the South Korean government regarding comfort women, over 200,000 Asian women, majority Korean, who were forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, was deemed unconstitutional the South Korean ministry released that the Foreign Minister, Kim Sung-hwan,… Continue Reading »
The City Assembly of Incheon Tries to Enact “The Charter on Teachers’ Rights” Sept. 7, 2011 Sodam Kim Since the adoption of the Seoul Charter of Student Rights, anxiety toward the harm of the rights of the teachers has been increasing. Many people were concerned because they thought that students would ignore teachers who lost… Continue Reading »