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.

• 2025-09-25
• Joshua D. Pilzer

Testimony, Common Voice - An Exhibition of the AI Interactive Testimony Content, “Encountering Testimonies”

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. 

• 2022-11-18
• Bae Ju-yeon

Here and now, what is the “issue” of Comfort Women for the Japanese military?

Now that a considerable amount of time has passed since the issue of the Japanese military “Comfort Women” was publicized, what are the questions young researchers are asking here?

• 2022-07-25
• Editorial Team of Webzine <Kyeol>

Translation of Silence, or Representation of the Untranslatable - A Review of the Film “The Silence”(2017)

Film researcher Hwang Miyojo sheds light on the documentary film “The Silence” produced by female director Park Su-nam, a second-generation Korean-Japanese. Director Park documented the struggle of Lee Ok-sun, who demanded that the Japanese government apologize and provide compensation, together with 14 colleagues.

• 2021-10-18
• Hwang Miyojo

The rooms of the surviving “Comfort Women” - Kang Il-chul’s room

What kind of everyday life do the surviving “Comfort Women” victims residing in the <House of Sharing> leads? <Kyeol> the Webzine has arranged an essay series to look at daily life of those who live at the <House of Sharing>, centering upon the space of the “room.” The fourth protagonist is Kang Il-chul.

• 2021-04-20
• Kim Dae-wol