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The Statue of Peace (Korean: 평화의 소녀상; RR: Pyeonghwaui sonyeosang; Japanese: 平和の少女像, Heiwano shōjo-zō), often shortened to Sonyeosang in Korean or Shōjo-zō in Japanese (literally "statue of girl") [1] and sometimes called the Comfort Woman Statue (慰安婦像, Ianfu-zō), [2] is a symbol of the victims of sexual slavery, known euphemistically as comfort women, by ...
The 1,100 pound bronze statue [5] monument is a replica of the original comfort women statue located in Seoul, South Korea. It depicts a girl sitting in a chair, with an empty chair beside her. [ 1 ] The chair represents aging survivors who have not yet received justice, as well as space for people to sit and reflect on how women and girls were ...
In Korea, the daughters of the gentry and the bureaucracy were spared from being sent into the "comfort women corps" unless they or their families showed signs of pro-independence tendencies, and the overwhelming majority of the Korean girls taken into the "comfort women corps" came from the poor. [74]
South Korea is still home to 37 comfort women, most of whom are in their 80s -- but Japan denied their existence for years. Why chilling statues of women have appeared in buses in South Korea Skip ...
Wednesday demonstration (Korean: 수요 집회, romanized: Suyo jipoe), officially named Wednesday Demonstration demanding Japan to redress the Comfort Women problems (Korean: 일본군 위안부 문제 해결을 위한 정기 수요시위), is a weekly protest in South Korea which aims at obtaining justice from the Japanese government ...
Statue of comfort women in Central, Hong Kong. Comfort women – girls and women forced into sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army – experienced trauma during and following their enslavement. [1] Comfort stations were initially established in 1932 within Shanghai, however silence from the governments of South Korea and Japan ...
Kim Seo-kyung and Kim Eun-sung are a husband-and-wife team of Korean sculptors. They are best known for the Statue of Peace. [1] The statue was completed in 2011 and placed near the Japanese embassy in Seoul. [2] It was just one of over 20 similar statues designed by the couple, most of which are located in Korea, with at least two in the USA. [1]
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