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The Statue of Peace (Korean: 평화의 소녀상; RR: Pyeonghwaui sonyeosang; Japanese: 平和の少女像, Heiwano shōjo-zō), often shortened to Sonyeosang in Korean or Shōjo-zō in Japanese (literally "statue of girl") [1] and sometimes called the Comfort Woman Statue (慰安婦像, Ianfu-zō), [2] is a symbol of the victims of sexual slavery, known euphemistically as comfort women, by ...
Statue of comfort women in Central, Hong Kong. Comfort women – girls and women forced into sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army – experienced trauma during and following their enslavement. [1] Comfort stations were initially established in 1932 within Shanghai, however silence from the governments of South Korea and Japan ...
On August 14, 2018, South Korea held an unveiling ceremony for a monument memorializing Korean women forced to work in wartime brothels for the Japanese military, as the nation observed its first official comfort women memorial day.
South Korea is still home to 37 comfort women, most of whom are in their 80s -- but Japan denied their existence for years. Why chilling statues of women have appeared in buses in South Korea Skip ...
The monument was initiated by the "Action Group Comfort Women" of the Korea Verband and was unveiled on September 28, 2020. [1] The statue has sparked a discourse on commemorative cultures among local, state, and diplomatic levels. [2] The bronze statue was designed by the South Korean artist couple Kim Eun-sung (b. 1965) and Kim Seo-kyung. [3]
Comfort Woman Statue may refer to: Statue of Peace, a statue in Seoul, South Korea; Filipina Comfort Women, a statue that was erected in Manila, Philippines; San Francisco Comfort Women Memorial, a statue installed in San Francisco, US
Wednesday demonstration (Korean: 수요 집회, romanized: Suyo jipoe), officially named Wednesday Demonstration demanding Japan to redress the Comfort Women problems (Korean: 일본군 위안부 문제 해결을 위한 정기 수요시위), is a weekly protest in South Korea which aims at obtaining justice from the Japanese government ...
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