Buses in Seoul install `comfort women` statues to honour former sex slaves
(The Guardian South Korea)

The statues were installed on five buses by the Dong-A Transit company, with the support of the Seoul mayor - although the use of public space to highlight this unresolved wartime atrocity has angered some in JapanBuses serving several routes in central Seoul have acquired a new and highly controversial new passenger: a barefoot `comfort woman`, wearing a traditional hanbok dress with her hands resting on her knees.Appearing on the front seat of buses in the South Korean capital earlier this week, the statues were installed by the Dong-A Transit company as a potent reminder of an unresolved wartime atrocity whose roots lie in Japan´s 1910-1945 occupation of the Korean peninsula.It horrifies me just to imagine what these women went through Related: Lacking Seoul? Why South Korea`s thriving capital is having an identity crisis Continue reading...