But this is not the first time statues of comfort women have been installed in Korea. BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA - FEBRUARY 21: The statue of a girl symbolizing 'comfort women' is seen in front of the ...

The Korean government ... not specify the number of statues in foreign countries. The ministry has been working on collecting data on the statues honoring "comfort women" — a euphemism wartime ...

He added that if the former comfort women agree to the removal of the statue, he would follow their decision. Yoon Mee-hyang, one of the co-presidents of the Korean Council for the Women Drafted ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - One test of the commitment by Japan and South Korea to resolve the "comfort women" issue may be the fate of a statue in front of Tokyo's embassy in Seoul. The bronze of a ...

International Women’s Day, pink poppies and roses filled the chair next to a recently installed Statue of Peace in Cologne, ...

SEOUL: Seoul Seobu police station said Friday (June 21) it has sought charges against a man for placing a plastic bag over a statue symbolising comfort women, the euphemism for the tens of ...

There are officially 64 surviving comfort women in South Korea today, out of the tens of ... removing a controversial private comfort-woman statue that is located in front of the Japanese embassy ...

Catholics in South Korea have urged the Japanese government to offer a sincere apology to the comfort women forced into ...

It commemorates the Filipino “comfort women”, who were forced ... The enslavement of men paved the way to the exploitation of Chinese and Korean women as sex slaves and the expansion of ...