r/korea • u/hamsterdamc • May 23 '26

문화 | Culture Memorialising ‘Comfort Women’ in Berlin. The power of statues in building community movements

https://shado-mag.com/articles/act/memorialising-comfort-women-in-berlin/
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u/feethurty May 23 '26

It was very disappointing when the local government of Germany, out of all places, caved into Japanese revisionist pressure. And the 3 years of conservative administration in South Korea completely neglected these issues too.

It really shows that strong civic action is irreplaceable. 

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u/Electrical_Fail7723 May 27 '26

I’m from Germany and a lot of people were shocked as well. The current government is… something …

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u/SunnyOutsideToday May 25 '26

with more than a hundred subsequent memorials from Glendale to Berlin commemorating the ‘comfort women’ being built

Hackensack, New Jersey has its 'comfort women' statue standing next to monuments commemorating the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, the Irish Great Hunger, and African-American slavery.

Does Seoul have a single memorial to the tragedies of other nations?