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Why We Must Listen to the Voices and Songs of the “Comfort Women” Survivors

The author – an ethnomusicologist – invites us to listen to “Comfort Women” survivors’ songs as a way to understand their lives and to remember them.

Joshua D. Pilzer

Art as a Messenger of Women’s Stories

Rose Camastro-Pritchett’s “Comfort Women” project uses art to honor the dignity and strength of survivors of wartime sexual violence. Inspired by her research and personal experiences, she creates intimate, respectful works that connect historical trauma to ongoing conversations about gender-based violence today.

Rose Camastro-Pritchett

Problems in the Ethics of Female Representation

A Conversation between Gina Kim and Han Sang Kim

Kim Gin-a

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

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

Meeting “Comfort Women” Victims’ First “Art Teacher” - Interview with Artist Kyung-Shin Lee, Author of “Flowers Unbloomed”

The first “art teacher” of the “Comfort Women” survivors who live in the House of Sharing. I met and listened to the story of artist Kyung-Shin Lee, the author of “Flowers Unbloomed,” which contains the behind story of the painting class she conducted for five years from 1993.

Purplay Kang Purm

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

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