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“House of Sharing” is the home for living comfort women (survivors of comfort women) who were forced to work as sex slaves for the Japanese military during WWII. The House of Sharing was founded in June 1992 through funds raised by Buddhist organizations and various socio-civic groups. The House of Sharing includes “The Museum of Sexual Slavery by Japanese Military” to spread the truth about the Japanese military’s brutal abuse of comfort women and to educate descendants and the public.

Every Wednesday, living comfort women, women’s organizations, socio-civic groups, religious groups, and a number of individuals participate in the “Wednesday Demonstration” in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul, sponsored by “The Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan.” It was first held on January 8, 1992, when Japan’s Prime Minister, Miyazawa, visited the Republic of Korea. It is to demand the full investigation and fulfillment of responsibility to restore the dignity and rights of the victims and to pressure the Japanese government to apologize for past atrocities.

Some of the survivors, Kang Duk-kyung, Kim Soon-duk and Lee Yong-Nyeo, preserved their personal history through their drawings as a visual archives. Also, the director of the Center for Asian American Media, Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, made a comfort women video archive, a documentary film for K-12 through college level students.

The “House of Sharing,” “Wednesday Demonstration,” and feminist visual and video archives have promoted a place for solidarity between the victims and the public. It has functioned as a “personal is political” feminist movement. Lastly, it has served as a living site for the teaching and learning of women’s dignity and human rights by bringing people together despite age, gender, borders, nationality, and ideologies.

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