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Culture 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.

Joshua D. Pilzer

AI 인터랙티브 증언 콘텐츠 ©한국여성인권진흥원 일본군‘위안부’문제연구소

Culture 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.

Bae Ju-yeon

Current Issue 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?

Editorial Team of Webzine <Kyeol>

Culture 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.

Hwang Miyojo

Historical Memory 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 leads? the Webzine has arranged an essay series to look at daily life of those who live at the , centering upon the space of the “room.” The fourth protagonist is Kang Il-chul.

Kim Dae-wol

Historical Memory The rooms of the surviving “Comfort Women” - Park Ok-sun’s room

Upon Park Ok-sun's return to South Korea, she moved back and forth between her younger brother's house and her nephew's house in Seoul, and eventually was admitted to in 2002.

Kim Dae-wol

베트남전 시민평화법정의 판결선고 직후 원고들과 변호사들의 모습 (사진 제공: 시민평화법정 준비위원회)

Current Issue Judgment after 50 years - 2018 People’s Peace Tribunal for the Vietnam War

From April 21 to 22, 2018, the ‘People's Tribunal on War Crimes by South Korean Troops during the Vietnam War’ (hereinafter the ‘People’s Peace Tribunal’) was held at the Oil Tank Culture Park in Mapo-gu, Seoul.

Jang Won-ah

Historical Memory The rooms of the surviving “Comfort Women” – Songnisan Lee Ok-sun's room

Songnisan Grandmother had anticipated that she would live in Songnisan for the rest of her life but ended up coming to the House of Sharing in the fall of 2018 after having knee surgery which made it difficult for her to easily move around.

Kim Dae-wol

Historical Memory The rooms of the surviving “Comfort Women” - Lee Ok-sun’s room

The traces and history of the surviving “Comfort Women” fill all corners of the but are most visible inside the rooms of the surviving “Comfort Women”.

Kim Dae-wol

Culture The End of the Tunnel - Interview with Kim Dae-wol, the Head Curator of the House of Sharing

Kim Dae-wol, Head Curator of the House of Sharing

Kim Dae-wol

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