scholarly journals Politics of Empathy around Song: A Study in the Current Issue of ‘Korean Comfort Women’

2015 ◽  
Vol null (69) ◽  
pp. 399-418
Author(s):  
Choe, Eun-Ju
Keyword(s):  
Current Issue ◽  
Comfort Women ◽  
Korean Comfort Women

Spacing and Displacing as Artistic Enquiry

2015 ◽  
pp. 54-71
Author(s):  
Taey Iohe
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Comfort Women ◽  
Art Writing ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
Conceptual Maps ◽  
Foreign Land ◽  
Korean Comfort Women ◽  
The Way

This chapter presents a philosophical journey and practical piece of experimentation on spatiality, virtuality and displacement. A series of art practices using photography, installation and art writing form the trajectory for a sequence of conceptual maps. The discussion engages with spacing and displacing as an artistic enquiry on space. The chapter consists of an examination of the typology and meaning of displacement in its translation from Korean, and a discussion of the formation of a gendered and artistically constructed displacement by extending the scope of the theory to the displacement of women in a colonial situation. This chapter explores the way in which displaced women (in the very particular case of Korean “comfort women” during the colonial war with Japan, and through the case of the artist, Hyeseok Na) cannot belong in either their home or a foreign land. Virtual-ness, here, is approached with an artistic understanding, and is found to constitute an unreal living space rather than merely a virtual environment through technology.

Korean “Comfort Women”

2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 938-957 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pyong Gap Min
Keyword(s):  
Comfort Women ◽  
Korean Comfort Women

Japan’s Reconciliation in the Issue of Comfort Women with the Netherlands and South Korea: Pragmatic and Reflective Reconciliation

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-64
Author(s):  
Naoko KUMAGAI
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
National Interest ◽  
Comfort Women ◽  
South Korean ◽  
The Core ◽  
Korean Comfort Women ◽  
Post War

Reconciliation among states tends to be pragmatic, based on cost/benefit national interest calculation. But it can be reflective, involving the perpetrator’s responsibility and remorse and the victims’ forgiveness, thus enhancing their mutual confidence. Japan’s moral compensation for the former Dutch and South Korean comfort women was pragmatic, based on the post-war legal agreements, but its scheme with atonement projects for each survivor had reflective elements. The Netherlands mostly accepted and South Korea mostly rejected Japan’s moral compensation for their distinctive historical and political reasons. However, Japan’s occasional excuse-like denial of coercive recruitment of comfort women based on the absence of public documents significantly reduced their confidence in Japan. This shows that the vindication of the victims’ dignity, anchored with the perpetrator’s consistent acknowledgement of its offense, is at the core of reconciliation. Reflective reconciliation is difficult to achieve but pragmatic reconciliation leaves room for dialogue among all parties concerned toward genuine understanding of the victims and thus to the restoration of their dignity.

The Demand to Listen to Korean “Comfort Women” and to Two Biblical Women

2020 ◽  
pp. 96-111
Author(s):  
Yani Yoo
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
Comfort Women ◽  
World War ◽  
Korean History ◽  
Japanese Military ◽  
Biblical Women ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
Korean Comfort Women

Correlated to the experiences of Korean comfort women, the story of Solomon’s judgment (1 Kgs. 3:16–28) becomes a resistance narrative to hegemonic powers. The interpretation discusses the literary strategies of the women’s identities and naming, the emerging reversal of power, the issues of mimicry, mockery, ambiguity, and the conspiracy of readers. The Japanese military comfort women of World War II serve as the geopolitical context with which the interpretation justifies its focus on the two biblical women. It becomes apparent that colonizing and patriarchal powers ignore victim-survivors of sexual violence and abuse whether in the biblical text or in recent Korean history. Biblical texts and recent wartime events illuminate each other.

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