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
A review of Unsilenced: Sexual Violence in Conflict, the UK’s first exhibition focusing on the issue of sexual violence during modern and contemporary global conflicts.
Nikolai Johnsen
The documentary film , directed by Cecilia Kang, a second-generation Argentine of Korean descent, follows the journey of the protagonist, Melanie Chong, as she confronts and grows increasingly aware of the issue of the Japanese military “Comfort women.”
Cecilia Kang
The Japanese military “comfort women” have been a subject of transnational feminism that criticizes the patriarchy of war and talks about peace and a symbol connected to the unfinished issue, sexual violence against women.
Kim Eun-ha
This is where the validity of the questions posed by this tangible AI interactive testimony content to the viewer lies: bringing up issues again about what to ask, not what to listen to. That’s because asking well must be accompanied by the constant consideration of the questioner. This, of course, would be to restore asking within the process of listening, not a reconversion or return to asking.
Bae Ju-yeon
This achievement of historical research will serve as a basis for listening to testimonies in depth beyond the narrow standard of “fact verification.”
Lee Jieun
the blanks in written language can connect us to the past more powerfully than the original voice, depending on how we relate to the testimonies.
Song Hye-rim
Bae Ha-eun
Similar to what the researchers considered in the fourth collection of testimonies, the line placement and long pauses in Emily Jungmin Yoon’s poems would be the mimesis for the testifiers’ persistent pain, long silence, faltering, and hesitation that are manifested through poetic deviation.
Lee Hye-ryoung
More than 10 years after the publication of the picture book “Flower Granny,” which tells the story of Sim Dalyeon, a victim of the Japanese Military “Comfort Women,” author Kwon Yoon-duk released “Yong, Maeng Ho,” the main character of the Vietnam War veteran. What is the story left by the author who has pointed out violence in Korean history through her works?
Purplay Kang Purm
