SEOUL--A pair of statues erected in an idyllic botanical garden in South Korea look set to reignite a furor with Japan over the contentious wartime "comfort women" issue. The Korea Botanic Garden ...

Lee Ok-seon, a former sex slave for Japanese World War II troops, speaks in Gwangju, Gyeonggi, in Aug. 12, 2023 during an ...

It commemorates the Filipino “comfort women”, who were ... to work to remove a memorial statue for the victims. The strange pact was criticized by South Korea’s current president but signed ...

The Korean government seemingly failed to ... The ministry has been working on collecting data on the statues honoring "comfort women" — a euphemism wartime sexual slavery victims — after ...

A petition calling for the removal of the so-called "peace statue" has ... Marano said "comfort women," called by Japanese authorities, were highly paid prostitutes from Korea, not the victims ...

A South Korean court's recent ruling is likely to further complicate bilateral relations between the two U.S. allies. Tokyo’s pressure over the statue faced a set-back in Germany as the issue ...

Based on this stance, the government has not participated in any trial in South Korea regarding compensation for wartime comfort women. In January 2021, the Seoul Central District Court ordered ...