News media in South Korea have generally shown a reluctance to criticize organizations that support former “comfort women,” a euphemism for women who were forced to provide sex to Japanese ...

Gil Won-ok, a former sex slave for Japanese troops who campaigned to raise awareness of the World War II atrocity, died ...

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SEOUL--South Korean prosecutors on Monday indicted the former leader of an advocacy ... rather than to help the “comfort women.” Prosecutors said in a statement, Yoon was charged on eight ...

Seven former "comfort women" have died this year. Only 48 victims are still alive in South Korea, where 238 women were once registered with the government as former sex slaves. Choi Kum-seon ...

Lew Seok-choon, a former Yonsei University professor, speaks to reporters at the Supreme Court in Seoul on Feb. 13, 2025, ...

A South Korean court has found a university professor guilty of defamation for questioning accepted views on so-called comfort women. The term is a euphemism for women who were forced to work in ...

The court recognized that her work constituted an academic analysis aimed at presenting a historically grounded perspective, not an attempt to defame or insult former comfort women. The ruling was a ...

He added that if the former comfort women agree to the removal of the statue, he would follow their decision. Yoon Mee-hyang, one of the co-presidents of the Korean Council for the Women Drafted ...