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Culture Problems in the Ethics of Female Representation

A Conversation between Gina Kim and Han Sang Kim

Kim Gin-a

일본군'위안부'문제연구소 2022 학술 콜로키움 <증언 이후: 일본군'위안부' 피해 재현의 윤리와 폭력>

Culture Rediscovering “Our” Issues in “Their” Fight: Review of the “After Testimony” Colloquium

Bae Ha-eun

Culture 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

Culture 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

A Place Where Survivors Know They Belong: Asian Women’s Shelter and the Work of Community-Based Support  Interview with Orchid Pusey (1)

Activism A Place Where Survivors Know They Belong: Interview with Orchid Pusey of Asian Women's Shelter (1)

Asian Women’s Shelter’s executive director shares how the organization began and how it works to serve “not either/or, but all” communities in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Orchid Pusey

Culture The Twilight of Testimony

Kim Soom’s novel “One Left”(Hyundae Munhak) is a work that announces a new turning point in the era of testimony. worldview formed ahead of these final moments, and can it present us with meaningful realistic possibilities not only in literary terms but also social and historical ones?

Park Hye-jin

Other Who is afraid of images?

KIM Dongryung

Current Issue Beyond Nationalism: The Ongoing History of the “Comfort Women” and Gender Politics

Carol Gluck

Activism Japan’s Me Too Movement and ‘Comfort Women’ Issue (Part 2)

Kyung-hee Cho, Assistant Professor, Institute for East Asian Studies, Sungkonghoe University

Kyung-hee Cho

Activism The Unique and Irreplaceable “Voices of ‘Comfort Women’”

The history of the Japanese Military “Comfort Women” issue has challenged long-standing conservative cultural norms regarding women and sexuality in Asia by amplifying the voices of the victims. Moreover, it has contributed to the establishment of globally significant norms and values related to women’s human rights. This means that the records documenting the Japanese Military “Comfort Women” issue and related activities meet the criteria of “world significance.”

Hye-in Han

Current Issue A Conversation with Stanislava Staša Zajović of Women in Black Belgrade (1)

Women who dare to speak out about sexual violence experience overwhelming anxiety across various aspects of their lives.

Stanislava Staša Zajović

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Historical Memory Characteristics of the Issue of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery in Singapore

Until 2022, when the book The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and Memory was published, it was widely thought in Singapore that there were no Singaporean "Comfort Women" who were sexually enslaved by the Japanese military.

Kevin Blackburn

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