Thursday, July 31, 2014

A sad peace monument in Glendale

 
Yonhap news.
There is a peace monument in a public park in Glendale, California.


  
This peace monument is symbolizing the victims of sexual slavery by the Japanese imperial military during World war 2.
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Yonhap news
A “spreading history” performance happened on July, 28.
 
Kim Jung-ki, drawing artist, illustrated young comfort women being taken by Japanese soldiers.
And verses of “Bong Seon-hwa” and “Arirang,” Korean folk songs, rang through Glendale’s Central Park.
 
 
 
 
This performance focus on real comfort women in history, Lee oak seon and Kang il chul.
 
Alive witnesses are visiting U.S at that time.
 
 
But they not attended in this performance and made many people feel sorry.
 
 
 
 
 
I heard that she is 88 year old.
 
 
For a long time they have lived in suffering and have not forgotten terrible memories.
 
 
More times over, war left people with indelible scars.
 
 
 
 
Just.. celebration the day? like this statue?
 
It’s an end???
 
Never. no.. It’s not solution.
 
We just do not want that to recur!
 
 

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