KEI Contributor – Kayla Harris

On April 5, President Moon’s Cabinet approved a bill allowing single people to adopt children. The Civil Act and the Family Litigation Act currently limit adoptions to married couples, but the change acknowledges the reality of single-member families accounting for almost one-third of households in South Korea. As the population ages and more young people…

A sculptor couple known for their comfort women statues around South Korea won a libel suit against an internet media outlet that claimed that the artists used a Japanese man as a model in one of their statues. Although this controversy does not directly involve the Japanese state, the harm that this accusation caused the…