Interviews
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- Meeting “Comfort Women” Victims’ First “Art Teacher” - Interview with Artist Kyung-Shin Lee, Author of “Flowers Unbloomed”
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The first “art teacher” of the “Comfort Women” survivors who live in the House of Sharing. I met and listened to the story of artist Kyung-Shin Lee, the author of “Flowers Unbloomed,” which contains the behind story of the painting class she conducted for five years from 1993.
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- Tell us the stories of the “comfort women” issue through music
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How can we remember the issue of Japanese military “comfort women”? Talking about an issue involves the processes of embracing it as one's own, facing it, and contemplating on it. In December 2019, a compilation album [Tell the Story - The Third Compilation of Songs] commemorating the Japanese military “comfort women” victims was released with the participation of about 30 musicians.
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- Building solidarity based on common history - Interview with Eka Hindrati, a researcher studying the “comfort women” issue in Indonesia
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Eka Hindrati is an Indonesian researcher who is persistently engaging in various activities towards resolving the 'comfort women' issues despite many challenges. Through a written interview, we asked her about the progress of studies and investigations on 'Japanese military sexual slavery' in Indonesia, and about what efforts are needed in order for South Korea and Indonesia to unite through the shared past.
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- Don’t dwell on anger; treat it as if it’s your current problem – Interview with Paek Sun-haeng, an activist from the <Heeum> Museum of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan
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Written by Paek Sun-haeng, Team Manager, The <Heeum> Museum of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan, an affiliate organization of the Daegu Citizen Forum for Halmuni
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- Interview with Totsuka Etsuro, an international lawyer representing Japan’s conscience, Part 2
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Written by Totsuka Etsuro (戶塚悅朗)
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- Interview with Totsuka Etsuro, an international lawyer representing Japan’s conscience, Part 1
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Written by Totsuka Etsuro (戶塚悅朗)
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- The End of the Tunnel - Interview with Kim Dae-wol, the Head Curator of the House of Sharing
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Kim Dae-wol, Head Curator of the House of Sharing
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- To a humane society cherishing the history of marginalized populations – Interview with Sohn Sung-sook, President of the Education for Social Justice Foundation (ESJF)
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Sohn Sung-sook, President of the Education for Social Justice Foundation (ESJF)
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- [We Met, and Now We Are Healing Together] Interview with Ahn Hae-ryong and Ito Takashi
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The photo exhibition , in which the victims of the Japanese Military ‘Comfort Women’ (called ‘Comfort Women’) from South Korea and North Korea join together, was held from March 6 to 11 at Exhibition Hall 2 of the Insa Art Center.
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- Meeting the first-generation researcher, to remember the first step - (3) Kang Jeong-sook
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Kang Jeong-sook majored in the women's history of modern Korea, and currently works as a researcher at the Centre for East Asian History at Sungkyunkwan University. She contributed greatly to the early studies on the ‘Comfort Women’, by investigating the truth of the ‘Comfort Women’ issue, recording the testimonies of the ‘Comfort Women’ victims, etc. while working at the Korean Institute of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery and the Truth Commission on Forced Mobilization.