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  • Your Name
    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

  • The voices that rolled inside bodies – Emily Jungmin Yoon’s collection of poems A Cruelty Special to Our Species
    The voices that rolled inside bodies – Emily Jungmin Yoon’s collection of poems A Cruelty Special to Our Species

    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

  • The Twilight of Testimony
    The Twilight of Testimony

    Kim Soom’s novel  “One Left”(Hyundae Munhak) is a work that announces a new turning point in the era of testimony. worldview formed ahead of these final moments, and can it present us with meaningful realistic possibilities not only in literary terms but also social and historical ones?

    Park Hye-jin

  • International people’s tribunal on the Indonesian genocide of 1965
    International people’s tribunal on the Indonesian genocide of 1965

    On November 12~14, 2015, an international people’s tribunal was held in The Hague, the Netherlands for the crimes against humanity that had occurred in Indonesia in 1965.

    Saskia E. Wieringa

  • People's Tribunal for Women in Guatemala - The story of women from the other side of the globe who inherited each other's pain
    People's Tribunal for Women in Guatemala - The story of women from the other side of the globe who inherited each other's pain

    The Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on the Trial of Japan's Military Sexual Slavery in 2000 (hereinafter the ‘Women's International War Crimes Tribunal 2000’), which was hosted in Tokyo, Japan from December 8 to 12, 2000, was a people’s tribunal[1] that held the Japanese government – the perpetrating state - and Emperor Hirohito responsible for war crimes. It was viewed as the most appropriate alternative plan devised at a time when it was no longer feasible to hold a legally effective international court with any cooperation from the Japanese government. 

    Sim A-jeong

  • The Story of Bae Bong-gi – “We luckily managed to survive amid that war.”
    The Story of Bae Bong-gi – “We luckily managed to survive amid that war.”

    In her book <The House with a Red Tile Roof - The Story of Korean Women Who Became the Japanese Military "Comfort Women"> which was translated into Korean in 2014, Kawata Fumiko vividly yet calmly unraveled the testimony of Bae Bong-gi, one of the Korean "Comfort Women" who was taken to Okinawa. Based on the testimonies and data collected from Okinawa residents, Japanese soldiers, as well as Bae Bong-gi, this article describes the detailed circumstances experienced by Bae Bong-gi and the “Comfort Women” surrounding the U.S. military’s air raids that took place on the Kerama Islands, Okinawa.

    Kawata Fumiko (川田文子)

  • The story of Song Shin-do – “We have not the slightest idea of what a person thinks inside.”
    The story of Song Shin-do – “We have not the slightest idea of what a person thinks inside.”

    This article is about the story of Song Shin-do remembered by Kawata Fumiko, who connected Song Shin-do to the ‘”Comfort Women” 110 Report Call Executive Committee’.

    Kawata Fumiko (川田文子)

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