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

43. Celebration-Performers

Friday August 15, 2008

The Korean Independence Day Celebration was hosted by Mee Wha Kim - the famous Korean comedian. Performances throughout the day included a Korean-Latin Jazz band, Korean traditional "Pansori" style singing, playing of the "Kayakum" (a traditional Korean board zither), Junior High School students doing cheer-leader-style dancing and singing, and Korean and Japanese folk and pop performers.