With the signing of the Comfort Women “deal” between Japan and South Korea in December 2015 – a deal signed without consulting the victims themselves – the issue of the wartime sex slaves once again came to the fore. While the inter-governmental negotiators were reaching the final stages of their deal-making, Cho Jungrae’s long-term project … [Read More]
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Selected publications
- Choi Chungmoo, Hyunah Yang: Voices of the Korean Comfort Women: History Rewritten from Memories, Routledge 2023
- Kyo Choi: The Apology, Methuen Drama 2022
- Sylvia Yu Friedman: A Long Road to Justice: Stories from the Frontlines in Asia, Penguin 2021
- Pyong Gap Min: Korean “Comfort Women”: Military Brothels, Brutality, and the Redress Movement, Rutgers University Press 2021
- Kim Soom: One Left tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton, University of Washington Press 2020
- Keum Suk Gendry-Kim: Grass tr Janet Hong, Drawn + Quarterly 2019
- Anthology: Korean Memories and Psycho-Historical Fragmentation ed Mikyoung Kim, Palgrave 2019
- Kan Kimura: The Burden of the Past: Problems of Historical Perception in Japan-Korea Relations tr Marie Speed, University of Michigan Press 2019
- Mary Lynn Bracht: White Chrysanthemum, Penguin 2018
- Emily Jungmin Yoon: Ordinary Misfortunes, Tupelo Press 2017
- Joshua Pilzer: Hearts of Pine: Songs in the Lives of Three Korean Survivors of the Japanese Comfort Women, Oxford University Press 2012
- C. Sarah Soh: The Comfort Women: Sexual Violence and Postcolonial Memory in Korea and Japan, University of Chicago Press 2009
- Lee Chang-rae: A Gesture Life, Granta 1999
- Nora Okja Keller: Comfort Woman, Penguin 1998
- Chin Sung Chung, Etsuro Totsuka, Keith Howard, Korean Council for Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan: True Stories of the Korean Comfort Women tr Young Joo Lee, Continuum 1995
Fringe visit: Girl
Modl Theatre Company is perhaps best known in this country for its work aimed at younger audiences, but it is a diverse company which also engages with more adult material too. And you can’t get much more adult than a graphic description of the surgical procedure that the Japanese forced upon young Korean girls so … [Read More]
Visiting Korean students protest Comfort Woman issue
Great to see so many young people from South Korea raising awareness of the ‘comfort women’ issue in London today, performing and protesting at the Japanese embassy and Trafalgar Square. [Read More]
Video: Living Statue “Comfort Women” protest outside Tate Modern
Braving the cold and rain, the living statue demonstration proceeded yesterday in front of Tate Modern. LKL arrived too late to take any photos, but above is one of the official photos and, below, a video of the protest. Links: justice4comfortwomenuk.wordpress.com [Read More]
Event news: Live Statue protest in support of “Comfort Women”
Timed to be close to International Women’s Day, there will be a “live statue” protest outside Tate Modern this Saturday, promoted by Justice for Comfort Women UK. Here is there official press release. Justice for ‘Comfort Women’ UK ‘Live Statue’ event in London Saturday 5 March 2016 12:00 – 16:00 Outside Tate Modern To publicise … [Read More]
Comfort Women deal protested at Ban Ki-moon speech
The Justice for ‘Comfort Women’ UK group held a quiet protest outside Westminster Central Hall yesterday as people filed in to listen to a talk by Ban Ki-moon. The dignified campaign continued inside: as Ban got up to speak, a protestor held up a sign demanding that the intergovernmental “deal” be annulled. Ban’s speech was targeted … [Read More]
Looking back at 2015: DPRK and regional news
In our third review of 2015, we look at some of the North Korea related news, and stories which put the peninsula in a wider East Asian context. DPRK Human rights and defectors Shin Dong-hyuk, the most prominent campaigner among the defector community, admitted that some of his testimony (eg, in Escape from Camp 14) … [Read More]
Supporters of Comfort Women to protest outside Korean Embassy
When the BBC reported the “deal” between Japan and South Korea on the Comfort Women issue last week, saying that ‘South Korea says it will consider the matter resolved “finally and irreversibly” if Japan fulfills its promises,’ LKL marvelled that no mention was made of what the victims themselves thought about the deal. They don’t … [Read More]
A surviving victim’s view on the Korea-Japan Comfort Women “deal”
In September this year 90 year old survivor of WW2 Japanese military sexual slavery Kim Bok-dong gave two public talks in London, at the Korean Cultural Centre and at Goldsmiths University. She said she had come, ‘not as a victim but as a human rights activist’, and explained that the surviving ladies were not just … [Read More]
Statements on the Comfort Women issue
Statements published jointly today by the Japanese and South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs aim to bring closure to the issue of wartime sexual slavery. The Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan also published a statement on the inter-governmental announcements, which says that the issue is by no means … [Read More]
Event news: The Voices of the Comfort Women and Their Journey for Peace
A rare opportunity to meet a survivor of the Japanese military sexual slavery system presents itself at Goldsmiths on Monday. The Korean NGO Justice to the ‘Comfort Women’ is also holding an event at the KCC tomorrow, Friday, at which presumably she will be present. The Voices of the Comfort Women 18 Sept, KCCUK Let’s … [Read More]
Sheffield conference report – Comfort Women: Listening To Their Voices
Short of bringing some of the surviving halmonis to the UK in person, it is difficult to imagine how the organisers of this weekend’s gathering in Sheffield could have assembled a better line-up of people to discuss the Comfort Women issue. We had Byun Young-joo, director of the trilogy of documentaries focusing on the Korean … [Read More]
Comfort Women: Listening To Their Voices — free screenings and discussion in Sheffield
A series of documentary screenings and discussions on the subject of Comfort Women, spread over Friday evening and Saturday. Director Byun Young-joo will be present to discuss her work – the first two documentaries of her 낮은 목소리 trilogy will be screening. Director Kim Dong-won will also be present. Korean Cinema Stories: Comfort Women — … [Read More]
Looking back at 2012: DPRK and regional news
In the third of four round-ups of things that caught our eye in 2012, we look back at some of the stories from the DPRK and Seoul’s external relations. DPRK The leadership transition proceeded smoothly, contrary to many observers’ expectations. Kim Jong-un showed that he had inherited his father’s expensive tastes, with a story that … [Read More]
Gumok: a simple, powerful portrayal of the story of a young Comfort Woman
In general, my heart sinks when I have to go to a musical. I’ve rarely come across a piece of music theatre from the last 50 years where the quality of the music and lyrics has lived up to the ambition of the production as a whole. The two big Korean musicals that have shown … [Read More]
Gumok, a new musical at the Chelsea Theatre
News of an interesting new musical getting an outing for one day only later this month in Chelsea, featuring the stories of the Korean Comfort Women: Gumok Date: 30th June, 2012 Place: Chelsea Theatre (SW10 0DR) Time: 5pm and 8pm Price: Pay what you like (min. £1) Project Team Gumok presents a new musical “Gumok” … [Read More]