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

A powerful and emotional documentary about Korean women forced into sexual ... dramatically combines the testimony of former comfort women who demand justice for the crimes against humanity ...

Now, only seven surviving “comfort women” remain. South Korea’s Ministry of Gender Equality and Family announced in a statement Sunday that Gil had died, noting that during her life she had ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...