Written by Son Hee-jung, Yonsei University Institute of Gender Studies
Son Hee-jung
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.
Earkey Project (The <Tell the Story> Project)
Kim Dae-wol, Head Curator of the House of Sharing
Kim Dae-wol
Bae Ha-eun
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
At times, a single poster can speak more powerfully than a hundred-page book. Kyeol had a conversation with New York-based artist Chang-Jin Lee regarding her COMFORT WOMEN WANTED project and how art can shed light on questions of gender, identity, and memory.
Chang-Jin Lee
Written by Paek Sun-haeng, Team Manager, The Museum of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan, an affiliate organization of the Daegu Citizen Forum for Halmuni
Paek Sun-haeng
The Japanese military “comfort women” have been a subject of transnational feminism that criticizes the patriarchy of war and talks about peace and a symbol connected to the unfinished issue, sexual violence against women.
Kim Eun-ha
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
