The statue symbolizing a Korean "comfort woman" in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul is expected to remain the main impediment for improving relations between Korea and Japan, despite a ...

Lee Yong-soo, center, a survivor of wartime sexual slavery, enters the Germany Embassy in Seoul on May 22, 2024, to deliver a letter opposing a planned removal of a symbolic statue of a so-called ...

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 ...

BERLIN — A bronze statue of a teenage girl in traditional Korean hanbok attire caught my attention as I was on a bus heading to my hotel in the central Berlin district of Mitte on Nov. 24, 2024.

SEOUL (AFP): South Korea's Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a Buddhist temple's claim to a 700-year-old statue purportedly looted from its premises by Japanese pirates in the 14th century ...