Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
Sam Kim – FOX News – Thursday, 31 January 2013 (originally published 28 Jan) SEOUL, South Korea – Both women lost their fathers to gunshots. Both also overcame that tragedy and rose to political prominence in countries where men dominate decision-making, buoyed in part by the legacies of their fathers. Aung San Suu Kyi, the [...]
Michel Martin – NPR – Tuesday, 11 December 2012 When Andy Marra came out as a transgendered woman, she got lots of support from her adoptive American parents. She wanted to move forward with hormones or surgery, but not until she found her birth family in South Korea. She shared that journey in an essay [...]
Anna Watanabe – Asian Correspondent – Wednesday, 10 October 2012 (originally published 05 Oct) South Korean singer and well known political campaigner Jang-hoon Kim and Public Relations expert Prof. Kyoung-duk Seo are taking the sensitive topic of Comfort Women to the US. A poster,asking “Do You Remember?” was erected in New York’s Times Square on [...]
Robert Lee – Korea Herald – Monday, 30 January 2012 (originally published 26 Jan) Gender Equality Minister Kim Kum-lae says she is striving to make Korea a global symbol of women’s empowerment. The country has been accepted to chair United Nations Women, the U.N.’s entity for gender equality and the empowerment of women, according to [...]
BBC – Tuesday, 20 December 2011 (originally published 14 Dec) South Korean women kept as sex slaves by the Japanese army during World War II have held their 1,000th rally outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul. A group of the women and their supporters unveiled a statue of a girl in traditional costume there. Demonstrators [...]
