Palace Door  Changdeokgung Palace Door  Changdeokgung Palace was
built in 1395 and it is one of the “Five Grand Palaces” built by
the kings of the Joseon Dynasty. Changdeokgung, like the other
Five Grand Palaces in Seoul, was heavily damaged during the
Japanese occupation of Korea. Currently, only 30% of the Palace
structures remain.   Demonstration in Ottawa  Declaration Letter
to Japan   From The Ottawa Citizen:  The issue that brought
people there on a grey, foggy day was a nearly seven-decades-old
open wound: Imperial Japan’s forced enlistment of an estimated
200,000 young women from Korea, China, the Philippines and other
nations as sex slaves — so-called “comfort women” — during the
Second World War.  The women were incarcerated in “comfort
stations” in Japanese-occupied foreign territories and forced to
service the sexual needs of up to 30 Japanese soldiers daily.
About three-quarters died and most of the survivors were left
infertile by sexual trauma or disease.  The Ottawa demonstration
was one of ab