History and Justice

Q. What is the Wednesday Demonstrations?
It is a weekly-held demonstartion in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul to bring a justice to Japanese Military Sexual Slavery issue. The Wednesday demonstrations has been held over 13 years as of 2007, July, and they had their 717th demonstration on July 12, 2006.
Q. When did it [...]

Interview with Kim Hak Soon in August 1991
Interview with Kim Hak Soon, a sixty-eight former Comfort Woman, who testified in public for the first time in Korea that she was forced to serve Japanese solders sexually. She was born in Manchuria and sold by her stepfather to a Japanese military in 1941 when she was [...]

On March 1, 2005, the Korean National Assembly passed a revision of the Civil Law that included Hoju system repeal. The abolishment of Hoju system is a significant step toward women’s equality in Korean society. Many women’s organizations have made tremendous efforts to abolish this biased law over years and finally they [...]