2022
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- The Victory of “Patriots without the State”
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This victory is just the beginning, not the end. (…) I hope that this verdict will inspire more survivors to find the courage to testify about their experiences, allowing Korean society to empathize with them and reflect on past violence and injustice and move forward into a new future.
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- A New Political Horizon Opening with Wounds - Report on the International Conference on Women’s Rights and Peace 2022
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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.
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- Reflections on Reading Statements from Japanese Military War Criminals
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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?
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- Testimony, Common Voice - An Exhibition of the AI Interactive Testimony Content, “Encountering Testimonies”
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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.
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- I Reflect: Becoming a Victim, Getting Out of Victimization
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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.
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- Expanding the Field of Struggle for the Japanese Military “Comfort Women”
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In the second round of conversation with young scholars, we met with young researchers and activists Lee Eunjin, Lee Jaeim, and Choi Sung Yong, and asked what the issue of the “Comfort Women” in the Japanese military means to their lives, and how it motivates them.
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- Who is afraid of images?
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In August 2000, I videotaped the medical examinations of the Japanese military “Comfort Women” victims in preparation for the upcoming “Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal” scheduled for Dece
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- The Past and Future of Testimony Presented by the “Comfort Women” (1): Testimony as Evidence and as Actions
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This achievement of historical research will serve as a basis for listening to testimonies in depth beyond the narrow standard of “fact verification.”
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- Calling Kim Soon-ak’s “Names”: An Interview with “Comfort” Director Emmanuel Moonchil Park
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Kim Soon-ak was referred to by countless names throughout her life: As we can guess from her multiple names, her life was full of twists and turns we didn’t know or didn’t want to know about.
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- What Sensations Do Artificial Intelligence(AI)-Based Testimonies of Presence Create?
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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.