Comfort Women Project - Asia Trip 2008

This project, supported by THE ASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL and THE LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL, honors the memory of 200,000 young women known as "Comfort Women" who were systematically exploited as sex slaves in asia during WWII, and increases awareness of sexual violence against women during wartime. The event was organized on an industrial scale, not seen before in modern history, and is the largest instance of human trafficking in the 20th century, yet it has gone largely unacknowledged.

Friday

42. Celebration - Beginning

Friday August 15, 2008

Korean Independence Day Celebration, August 15th, at Nanumeh-Jip. Many students from Junior High School to Graduate students were volunteering at the event.

The event began with an orchestra playing Korean music.