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Problems in the Ethics of Female Representation

A Conversation between Gina Kim and Han Sang Kim

Kim Gin-a

Gazing at the “Death Pit” and Representation of the Memories of “Comfort Women” Victims

She deals with the issues of how the victimization of women in the post-colonial Korean society is represented, what type of gaze operates here, and what the gaze ultimately strives to see.

Kim Han-Sang

Translation of Silence, or Representation of the Untranslatable - A Review of the Film “The Silence”(2017)

Film researcher Hwang Miyojo sheds light on the documentary film “The Silence” produced by female director Park Su-nam, a second-generation Korean-Japanese. Director Park documented the struggle of Lee Ok-sun, who demanded that the Japanese government apologize and provide compensation, together with 14 colleagues.

Hwang Miyojo

No Longer Silenced!

A review of Unsilenced: Sexual Violence in Conflict, the UK’s first exhibition focusing on the issue of sexual violence during modern and contemporary global conflicts.

Nikolai Johnsen

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Testimony, Common Voice - An Exhibition of the AI Interactive Testimony Content, “Encountering Testimonies”

This is where the validity of the questions posed by this tangible AI interactive testimony content to the viewer lies: bringing up issues again about what to ask, not what to listen to. That’s because asking well must be accompanied by the constant consideration of the questioner. This, of course, would be to restore asking within the process of listening, not a reconversion or return to asking.

Bae Ju-yeon

The Past and Future of Testimony Presented by the “Comfort Women” : Testimony as Evidence and as Actions

This achievement of historical research will serve as a basis for listening to testimonies in depth beyond the narrow standard of “fact verification.”

Lee Jieun

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The voices that rolled inside bodies – Emily Jungmin Yoon’s collection of poems A Cruelty Special to Our Species

Similar to what the researchers considered in the fourth collection of testimonies, the line placement and long pauses in Emily Jungmin Yoon’s poems would be the mimesis for the testifiers’ persistent pain, long silence, faltering, and hesitation that are manifested through poetic deviation.

Lee Hye-ryoung

From Asking to Listening, from Singular to Plural: The Transformability of “Comfort Women” Narrative Norms in Kim Soom’s “One Left”

In some way or another, testimony literature must provide its own answer to the question of what to represent and how. So what was the answer found by Kim Soom's novel "One Left" (Hyundae Munhak, 2016)?

Kwon-Kim Hyun-young

Why We Must Listen to the Voices and Songs of the “Comfort Women” Survivors

The author – an ethnomusicologist – invites us to listen to “Comfort Women” survivors’ songs as a way to understand their lives and to remember them.

Joshua D. Pilzer

How a Diaspora Director Talks About the “Comfort Women” Issue Through a Documentary

The documentary film , directed by Cecilia Kang, a second-generation Argentine of Korean descent, follows the journey of the protagonist, Melanie Chong, as she confronts and grows increasingly aware of the issue of the Japanese military “Comfort women.”

Cecilia Kang

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