SEOUL--A pair of statues erected in an idyllic botanical garden in South Korea look set to reignite a furor with Japan over the contentious wartime "comfort women" issue. The Korea Botanic Garden ...

Similar fights over memorials to the 'comfort women' have played out elsewhere, including Southern California. But the ...

This year, demonstrators gathered in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul, capital of South Korea, near the iconic Statue of Peace, a memorial to victims of Japan's wartime sexual slavery.

Tanaka appeared in the June 15 court hearing at the request of Seoul. “We should all remember that a group of thieves illegally smuggled the statue to South Korea in the first place,” he told ...

As South Korea developed, the power dynamics also shifted. Young South Koreans, who came of age in a rich country, have no ...

At a hearing on Monday, advocates and opponents debated a proposed statue in Philadelphia to honor Korean “comfort women” ...

There are two Koreas, North and South. But there’s also more than one South Korea; it’s split into camps with often polar opposite views on the danger posed by their nuclear-armed neighbor to the ...

The archdiocesan territory covers Seoul, an area of 605 square kilometers, and Hwanghae province, an area of 16,744 square kilometers in North Korea. The ecclesiastical ... Gwanak Mountain in the ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Less than a month before leaving ... with police in downtown Seoul as they rallied in front of a statue of Adm. Yi Sun-shin, a medieval naval hero who is lionized ...

The Associated Press interviewed and photographed dozens of South Koreans for a detailed look at the nation’s stark division over North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s headlong pursuit of nuclear-tipped ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Less than a month before leaving ... with police in downtown Seoul as they rallied in front of a statue of Adm. Yi Sun-shin, a 16th-century naval hero who is lionized ...