Seongnam City is holding a special exhibition in commemoration of Wianbu victims (comfort women for the Japanese military) during World War II in the Exhibition Room on the 2nd floor of Seongnam City Hall from September 11 to 15.
The exhibition, entitled “Remember, Again,” was planned to remind people of the tragic history of the Wianbu during World War II, recovering the victims’ honor, and ascertaining the historical truth.
The exhibition displays 17 works of modern installation art with the themes of “An ordinary life and marriage” and “Years spent as a Wianbu” that express the memories that the victims would have had if they had lived an ordinary life and the memories that they want to forget in turn.
There is also an installation work that symbolizes the surviving Wianbu victims with 35 light bulbs. This exhibition is expected to spread awareness of and interest in the Japanese military’s role in enforced sex slavery during World War II. Seongnam City has erected the Statue of Peace on April 15, 2014, in City Hall Square.
This statue had been set up to urge Japan to genuinely apologize for war-time sexual slavery and to draw attention to this issue as a global human rights issue.
Of the 238 Korean Wianbu victims registered with the government, only 35 are still alive, with 34 residing in Korea and one overseas.

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