Speaker introduction
Dr. Hyun-soog So
korea, Research Institute on Japanese Military Sexual Slavery
Current Hanyang University Comparative History and Culture Research Institute HK Research Professor
Books: “Korean Modern and Contemporary History as Seen through Everyday History,” “Colonial Publicness,” “The Front Line of Japanese-Korean People’s History Research” (all co-authored)
Papers: “Modern Divorce System and Women’s Response in the Colonial Period,” “Between Chastity and Homemaking: A Study on the Widows’ Burden in the Colonial Period,” etc.
Prof. Kevin Peter Blackburn
Singapore, Nanyang Technological University
Graduated from the Department of History at the University of Queensland, Australia in 1993.
Winner of the Singapore Best Nonfiction Book Award in 2023 for “Singapore’s Comfort Women in History and Memory”
“Comfort Women in Malaysia and Singapore as Transnational History and Memory” was published in the special issue of Women’s History Review.
Prof. Woo-kyung Lim
Korea, SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY / Dpt. East Asian Studies
2004 Yonsei University, Department of Chinese Literature, undergraduate, master's, doctoral degree
Currently Professor HK, Institute of East Asian Studies, Sungkyunkwan University
Books: 「The East Asian Cold War and the Chain of Military ‘Comfort Stations’」, Japanese Cultural Studies Vol. 81, etc.
Young-sook Kim
Korea, NORTHEAST ASIAN HISTORY FOUNDATION / Research Commissioner
2004 Doctorate in modern and contemporary Japanese history, Department of Japanese History, University of Tokyo
Current researcher at Northeast Asian History Foundation
Book: Japan's invasion of Southeast Asia seen through 『Photo Bulletin』 - Illusions and contradictions of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, etc.
Prof. Ji-hee Moon
Korea, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies / Dpt. of Dutch Language
Major in Dutch Literature at Leiden University, Netherlands.
Study of the history and literature of colonialism in the Netherlands, South Africa, Indonesia, and the Caribbean
Translation: ‘Comfort Women – Sexual Violence Issues and Women’s Human Rights Written by a Dutch Journalist’ (Brigit Ars, Exploration Party, 2024)
Session 1 Asian "Space" and the issue of 'Japanese Military Sexual Slavery'
Dr. Su-jin Kim
Korea, National Museum of Korean Contemporary History / Art and Science researcher
Current Director of Education, Curatorial Research, National Museum of Korean History
Books - "New Women, Excess of Modernity" (2009)
"Rewriting History through Memory - Forcibly Taken Korean Military Comfort Women 4" (2011, co-authored)
Hye-in Han
Korea, Asia Peace & History Institute / researcher
Current Asia Peace and History Research Institute Research Fellow
Books: Names Found in Overwritten Memories: Analysis of Lists Related to Japanese Military Comfort Women (2021, co-authored)
Japanese Military 'Comfort Women' Translation Data Collection (2019, compiled) etc.
Prof. THERESA YEH, DER LAN
Taiwan, Dpt. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, and Director of the Population and Gender Studies Center at the National Taiwan University
Professor of the Department of Foreign Languages and Humanities, National Taiwan University, and Director of the Population and Gender Studies Center, National Taiwan University
President of the NGO Taiwan Women's Rescue Foundation (TWRF) in 2020
White Paper on Gender Equality Education for the Ministry of Education of Taiwan (2022, Lead Author)
Prof. Myung-Hee Kim
Korea, Gyeongsang National University, Dpt. of Sociology
Vice President of the Current Japanese Military ‘Comfort Women’ Research Association
Current Editorial Committee Member of the Korean Society of Social History <Society and History>
Books: Gyeongnam Modern and Contemporary History: Events, Spaces, Movements (2023, co-authored), etc.
Dr. Jun-hwan Gong
Korea, SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY ASIA CENTER / Visiting Researcher
Completed Ph.D. in Sociology at Seoul National University
Participated in the Seoul National University Jeong Jin-seong Research Team, conducted overseas data research on the Japanese military'comfort women' issue (2016~) Allied war criminal trials and 'human rights' agenda (2023) / History Criticism
Prof. Han-sang Kim
Korea, Ajou University / Dpt. of Sociology
International Visual Sociology Association Vice President
Books : Cine-Mobility: Twentieth-Century Transformations in Korea’s Film and Transportation (Harvard University Asia Center, 2022) etc.
Session 3 How will you remember and what will you celebrate? The Future of Asian Solidarity
Session 2 Current Status of Support Regiment for Victims of 'Japanese Military Sexual Slavery'
in Asian countries
Prof. Kyung-hee Moon
Korea, Changwon National University / Dpt. of International Relations
Current Professor of International Relations, Changwon National University
Former Researcher, Sookmyung Women's University Asian Women's Research Institute
Cinematic Representation of the Korean-Japanese Transnational Japanese Military 'Comfort Women' Movement and the Politics of Visibility
: The Gap of Memory Between the Kanbu Trial and the Film <Herstory> (2023)
Patporn Phoothong
Thailand, Independent Scholar
Patponputong is a researcher with over 10 years of practical experience in development, focusing on violent extremism, peace and conflict, human rights and social protection in Thailand.
Virginia Lacsa Suarez
Philippines, A lawyer
Workers Supporting Women and Labor Services, 'Mandaluyong' City (KAISA-KA) - National Chairperson
Draft/Proposal of the Law on Prohibition of Child Marriage and IRR Bill
2024 Inquirer's Women of Power Award
Prof. Matsuno Akihisa
Japan, Osaka University / Professor Emeritus
Member of the International Advisory Committee of the Museum of the Current East Timor ‘Centro Nacional Chega!’ (CAVR successor organization)
Final Report of the Joint Japanese-East Timorese NGO Study on the Japanese Military Comfort Women in East Timor in Tetun (2016) ‘Japanese Military Comfort Women in East Timor, 1942-1945’, Korean (translation) published (2022)
Kyoung-hee Lee
Korea, Masan Changwon Citizen's Forum for Halmuni / Representative
Current Gyeongnam Regional Japanese Military Comfort Women History Museum Promotion Committee Standing Representative
Former Policy Advisory Committee Member of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family
Former Member of the Conflict Resolution Special Committee of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Sustainable Development
Prof. Liu Guangjian
China, The Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing
Current Chief Researcher at the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall
Published several papers focusing on the Japanese military's 'comfort women' issue
Discovered various records on the Japanese military's 'comfort women' issue