Open Thread #906 » Dramabeans Korean drama recaps
1. LIFE NOTES
The IRS is being exceptionally STUPID this week and has caused pointless inconvenience. Inconveniencing people due to incompetence is #!#%5@!!!!
Let’s just leave it at that because if I start talking about it, it is going to turn into a long rant.
And I received news this week that yet another women’s human rights organisation is losing their funding due to the U.S. regime.
2025 has so far been feeling horrible. Not a fan.
2. THIS WEEK IN KOREAN WOMEN’S NEWS
(i) Attacks on ‘comfort women’ heralded the violent far right seen today in Korea, advocate says
A memorial service did not deter right-wing protesters determined to heckle advocates for the rights and dignity of victims of Japan’s “comfort women” system of sexual enslavement.
When activists seeking a resolution for women forced into sexual slavery by Japan during World War II held their 1,688th Wednesday Demonstration near the former Japanese Embassy in Seoul’s Jongno District, the rally doubled as a memorial for Gil Won-ok, a survivor of the “comfort women” system who had passed away three days earlier.
But near the service held in Gil’s memory, members of a group called National Action to Abolish the Comfort Woman Act chanted slogans denying that the Japanese military had even run comfort stations.
https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/1184826.html
(ii) Korean who began school as World War II ended, but never finished, off to university at 87
At an age when most people reflect on their lives, 87-year-old Kim Gap-nyeo is starting a new chapter as a university student.
After years of raising five daughters alone while working in markets, factories and bathhouses, Kim graduated from Ilsung Women’s High School, a school for adult learners in Seoul, South Korea, on February 25, and is set to begin her studies at Sookmyung Women’s University next month.
Born in 1938, Kim began primary school after Korea’s liberation from Japanese occupation in 1945. However, her education was cut short when her mother asked her to quit school and help with housework.
