{"id":33726,"date":"2013-10-09T09:43:47","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T13:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=33726"},"modified":"2013-09-12T10:49:02","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T14:49:02","slug":"comfort-women-wanted-korea-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=33726","title":{"rendered":"Comfort Women Wanted @ Korea Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, October 9  6:30 PM<br \/>\nThe Korea Society<br \/>\n950 3rd Ave, New York, NY<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Comfort-Women-Wanted.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[33726]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33727\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Comfort-Women-Wanted.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"431\" height=\"115\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comfort Women Wanted was originally exhibited in The Incheon Women Artists\u2019 Biennale in Korea, and will be presented in Times Square from September 9 to October 9, 2013 from September 9 to October 9, 2013, in collaboration with the Times Square Alliance and the NYC Department of Transportation\u2019s Urban Art Program. This is a public art project that Chang-Jin Lee brings to light the memory of 200,000 young women, known as &#8220;comfort women,&#8221; who were systematically exploited as sex slaves in Asia during WWII, and increases awareness of sexual violence against women during wartime . Lee\u2019s project is based on interviews with Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese, Indonesian, Filipino, and Dutch &#8220;comfort women&#8221; survivors and a former Japanese soldier.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please visit:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.koreasociety.org\/arts-culture\/gallery-talks\/comfort_women_wanted.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.koreasociety.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, October 9 6:30 PM The Korea Society 950 3rd Ave, New York, NY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33726"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33732,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33726\/revisions\/33732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}