She campaigned for a formal apology and reparations from Japan for what it did to thousands of women like her, mostly Korean, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Born in Japanese-occupied Korea, she was among the last surviving “comfort women” forced into sexual servitude for Japanese ...

How do you say "deepfake," "ASAP" and "digital" in Korean? The fight to keep foreign words from diluting the language ...

Gil's death reduces to seven the number of surviving comfort women in South Korea. Of the 240 women registered with the government, 233 have died. Two of the survivors are between the ages of 90 ...

Gil was an active participant in the movement demanding redress for the victims of military sexual slavery by imperial Japan ...

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 ...

Official Japanese government protests against "comfort women" statues that are springing up in the United States and South Korea further inflame the situation and prompt even more statues to be ...