Dozens of women who worked in the sex trade in South Korea are seeking an apology and compensation for the rights abuses they suffered while catering to American G.I.s. By Choe Sang-Hun Reporting from ...

Known as the “Camptown women”, they claim they were subjected to human rights abuses, forced into regular STD testing, held in isolation, and sometimes subjected to violent treatment at these ...

More than 100 South Korean women have filed a landmark lawsuit targeting the United States military over its role in a state-sanctioned sex trade. According to the New York Times, the complaint seeks ...

South Korean actress Song Ji-hyo returns to the big screen with her latest film, "Home Behind Bars," which premiered ...

Under rules that the U.S. military and South Korean officials worked out, comfort women had to be tested twice a week, according to the women and unsealed documents. The U.S. military conducted random ...

In this file picture taken in Dongducheon on September 24, 2024, a general view shows a building slated for demolition that was once a "monkey house", a clinic for sex workers hired to serve US ...

Young women were at the forefront of the movement which led to Yoon Suk-yeol being impeached, significantly outnumbering their male counterparts. Many have been disillusioned by unmet demands for ...

US President Donald Trump on Monday drew attention to the sensitive issue of “comfort women” during his White House meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, a discussion that otherwise ...

A growing number of South Korean women are training to be morticians, a field from which they had long been excluded, amid changing views on gender roles and a rising preference for women's bodies to ...