a women’s rights activist and Korean survivor of Japan’s “comfort women” system of sexual slavery, entreated the country to not remove a memorial in Berlin commemorating victims of the ...

With popular support, the Japan-South Korea comfort women agreement seems likely to succeed.

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".

The Cheongju District Court's decision on Friday over the case, where the son had sought 200 million won ($140,000), was the third known South Korean ruling in favor of comfort women, following ones ...

SEOUL--South Korean President Moon Jae-in said a recent ruling by the Seoul Central District Court ordering the Japanese government to pay damages to 12 former “comfort women” took him by ...

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 ...

Acting South Korean President Han Duck-soo visited the memorial altar for the late Pope Francis on Tuesday to pay tribute to ...

SEOUL (Kyodo) -- A South Korean court on Friday ordered the Japanese government to pay compensation to the son of a former "comfort woman" over her treatment in military brothels during World War II.