Posts in Korean History
"Retracing Anti-Asian Sentiment" by Ashley Jo

Since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in 2020, Asians have seen a skyrocketing increase in Asian hate crimes. These violent acts of racial discrimination are not the first of their kind. In this article, Ashley Jo takes readers throughout American history to identify and analyze instances of racism directed towards Asians. It is important to be aware of the racial injustices that Asian Americans have had to endure for a long period of time, continuing in present day.

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"Military Comfort Women" by Donna Kim and Irene Kim

A Harvard Law Professor, John Mark Ramseyer, recently published an article where he claims, without sufficient evidence, that the Japanese military sex slaves were willing "prostitutes" who were able to "negotiate" for substantial wages in a consensual contractual relationship. However, Korean women and girls were taken from their homes and forced into being sex slaves by the Imperial Japanese Army. Still to this day, survivors have not received an apology. Sign the petition reviewed in this article to demand that the Dean of Harvard Law School and the President of Harvard University take disciplinary action upon Professor Ramseyer who violated ethics and a moral conscience as a scholar.

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