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Listening to Halmonis, Writing against Denial: A Personal and Scholarly Journey

Stories of “Comfort Women” are as insightful as they are heartbreaking. In this article, the author—an Argentine scholar—traces her journey from her first encounter with survivors and reflects on how it reshaped her personal and professional life, while also following the transnational itinerary of the “Comfort Women” movement across borders.

María del Pilar Álvarez

Right-wing or Conscientious?

Takashi Machida

중국의 전범 관리소에 수감되어 ‘생각’을 하게 되는 일본군 전범들 ⓒ백정미

Reflections on Reading Statements from Japanese Military War Criminals

Confucius once said that failure to learn and think critically can lead to delusion and danger. However, can’t we minimize the misfortunes of our world by cultivating the power to think without necessarily recalling Confucius' statement?

Lee Sun-I

I Reflect: Becoming a Victim, Getting Out of Victimization

Being simultaneously vulnerable, damaged, in the midst of anger, yet refusing to be consumed by that anger, courageous, and a fighter is the unique struggle of victims. Paradoxically, victims possess a special dignity in the minute possibility of becoming all of these beings at once.

LEE Nara

Who is afraid of images?

KIM Dongryung

Your Name

In the era of “One Left” illustrated in a novel written by author Kim Soom, what we have to do now is not count the number of government-registered survivors, but call out the names of “the drowned” between 240 and 200,000 victims and “save” those who are still drowning.

Hunmi Lee

#survivor

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

Webzine Readers Talk

Editorial Team of Webzine <Kyeol>

#리뷰

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