South Korea and Japan reached agreement on the dispute over Korean women who were forced to serve as sex slaves for Japan's ...

SEOUL--Two recent alleged monetary scandals at organizations helping former “comfort women” have raised questions here about how such entities have been handled in South Korea until now.

Park’s research reveals a more complex and nuanced reality behind the comfort women system, contradicting the simplified victim-perpetrator narrative often promoted in South Korea. She emphasizes the ...

Acquittal of scholar on defamation charges over comfort women Lew Seok-choon, a former Yonsei University professor, speaks to ...

In December, 2015, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Park Geun-hye reached an agreement to settle the “comfort women” dispute. Tokyo agreed to pay $8.3 million to a fund ...

Additionally, traditional research challenges the notion that the comfort women issue is solely a bilateral conflict between Japan and South Korea. It explores the broader implications of ...

The regular Wednesday rallies in honor of the victims -- known by the Japanese euphemism "comfort women" -- have been held since 1992 in front of the Embassy of Japan in Korea in Jongno-gu ...

However earlier that month, a South Korean professor, Park Yu-ha, sparked public debate when her 2013 book disputed the commonly held beliefs about the role of Koreans as "comfort women".