For decades, thousands of South Korean women were forced into prostitution for the pleasure of American soldiers, with the support of the Seoul government. They are now seeking reparations.
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[Interview] Scholar brings story of Korea’s ‘comfort women’ halmoni to Spanish-speakers
When María del Pilar Álvarez, a professor of Korean Studies at the University of Salvador in Argentina, visited Korea for the first time, she flew approximately 19,000 kilometers to reach Seoul. As a ...
The bronze statue outside the Japanese embassy in Busan (photo via @lucycheon/Instagram) A statue commemorating the thousands of Korean women forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese imperial ...
Only 46 survivors remain of 238 women in South Korea who came forward in the early 1990s and their average age is 89. The two "comfort women", as those who were forced to work at Japan's wartime ...
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