The group also criticized the 2015 Japan-South Korea bilateral agreement on settling the comfort women issue on grounds that it does not acknowledge the Japanese government’s legal responsibility.

Japan’s apology has ended a long and very bitter dispute. Can the two nations now learn to work together? The news out of Tokyo and Seoul on the eve of the New Year was nothing short of blockbuster.

Lew Seok-choon, a former Yonsei University professor, speaks to reporters at the Supreme Court in Seoul on Feb. 13, 2025, ...

South Korea and Japan reached agreement on the dispute over Korean women who were forced to serve as sex slaves for Japan's ...

However earlier that month, a South Korean professor, Park Yu-ha, sparked public debate when her 2013 book disputed the commonly held beliefs about the role of Koreans as "comfort women".

SEOUL--Two recent alleged monetary scandals at organizations helping former “comfort women” have raised questions here about how such entities have been handled in South Korea until now.

A South Korean court has found a university professor guilty of defamation for questioning accepted views on so-called comfort women. The term is a euphemism for women who were forced to work in ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - One test of the commitment by Japan and South Korea to resolve the "comfort women" issue may be the fate of a statue in front of Tokyo's embassy in Seoul. The bronze of a ...

In December, 2015, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Park Geun-hye reached an agreement to settle the “comfort women” dispute. Tokyo agreed to pay $8.3 million to a fund ...

The ruling recalls the 2018 judgment on forced labor that sparked a trade war between Japan and South Korea.

Park’s research reveals a more complex and nuanced reality behind the comfort women system, contradicting the simplified victim-perpetrator narrative often promoted in South Korea. She emphasizes the ...

The statue, which commemorates the "comfort women" of World War II, has embroiled the local government in a minor diplomatic controversy. A South Korean court's recent ruling is likely to further ...