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Historical Memory Remembering Kim Hak-sun

Written by Lee Hee-ja, President of the Association for Requesting Compensation for the Pacific War Victims

Lee Hee-ja

Culture Calling Kim Soon-ak’s “Names”: An Interview with “Comfort” Director Emmanuel Moonchil Park

Kim Soon-ak was referred to by countless names throughout her life: As we can guess from her multiple names, her life was full of twists and turns we didn’t know or didn’t want to know about.

Purplay Kang Purm

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

Culture The End of the Tunnel - Interview with Kim Dae-wol, the Head Curator of the House of Sharing

Kim Dae-wol, Head Curator of the House of Sharing

Kim Dae-wol

Culture Problems in the Ethics of Female Representation

A Conversation between Gina Kim and Han Sang Kim

Kim Gin-a

Other Asking the Readers for their Opinions on the Webzine in 2019?

Webzine Readers Talk

Editorial Team of Webzine <Kyeol>

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Historical Memory Remembering Bae Bong-gi

she said, with tears streaming down her cheeks, when a Japanese journalist suggested they go back and visit her old home together. Away for so long from her hometown in South Chungcheong Province – a place which she could now only dream about.

Park-Kim Wooki (朴金優綺)

Historical Memory Dear Hak-sun, how are you doing in heaven now?

Written by Nobukawa Mitsuko (信川美津子), Civic Activist

Nobukawa Mitsuko (信川美津子)

Culture Don’t dwell on anger; treat it as if it’s your current problem – Interview with Paek Sun-haeng, an activist from the Museum of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan

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

Activism Meeting the first-generation researcher, to remember the first step - (2) Song Yeon-ok

She is an Emeritus Professor of Aoyama Gakuin University. As a Korean in Japan (a Zainichi Korean) and a researcher who laid the foundation for the studies of colonial history and women's history in Japan, she has been playing an important role in investigating the truth about the ‘Comfort Women’ issue. Her main publications include 『Military and Sexual Violence』, 『A Study on the East Asia Japanese military sexual slavery (co-authorship)』, 『A Study of 70 Years of Women's History in Korea (co-authorship)』, 『Colonialism, War, ‘Comfort Women’ for the Military (co-authorship)』, 『War and Social Affairs in East Asia(co-authorship)』, and so on.

Editorial Team of Webzine <Kyeol>

Historical Memory A Story of Constant Struggle: The “Comfort Women” Issue in North Korea

Historian Harrison C. Kim traces how discourse on “Comfort Women” in North Korea has evolved—at times in dialogue with the outside world—while developing distinct advocacy practices and perspectives.

Cheehyung Harrison Kim

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

Carol Gluck

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