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.
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 ...
A legal dispute has emerged over whether the remaining funds from the 2015 bilateral agreement on Japan's wartime sexual ...
The foundation established by South Korea and funded by Japan to implement the 2015 bilateral accord over the issue of so-called wartime comfort women has challenged a South Korean court decision to a ...
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 ...
Alongside South Korea’s rapid modernization, women's lives have been profoundly transformed. Korean women continue to face ...