Ah-Hyun Angela Lee

PhD candidate in Korean Studies at Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany. She received a BA in History of Art and Korean Studies and an MA in Modern East Asian Studies from the same university. In her PhD research, she primarily examines the transcultural memory practices and narratives established via the P’yŏnghwaŭi Sonyŏsang using the examples of Berlin, Kyoto, and Seoul. For this, she conducted fieldwork as a visiting research fellow at Waseda University in Japan and Sungkonghoe University in South Korea. Her research interests include but are not limited to contested memories, the Korean diaspora, and public history.

• Nr. 168/169 (2023) Artikel Article 74–94 {:en}Contested Transnational Memory Space of “Comfort Women”: The Korean Diaspora’s Civic Engagement in GermanyOn December 14, 2011, the first P’yŏnghwaŭi Sonyŏsang, also known as the “Statue of a Girl for Peace,” was built in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea. Since then, replicas have been installed in global cities such as Berlin, New York, Shanghai, Sydney, and Toronto. The bronze memorial represents Korean “comfort women” … von by Ah-Hyun Angela Lee
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