LiA Week 2 - War and Women's Human Rights Museum, Seoul

Apr 21, 2026

Student/Research Assistant, Georgetown University

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Compared to last week, this week was definitely a more “normal” week at the museum.

I started out the week by tabling for the museum and the Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance for the Issues of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan (the Korean Council). We were on one of the most popular streets for tourists and locals alike, right by the entrance to Insadong, an area famed for its cultural activities and souvenirs for visitors. As someone who has always avoided being the proactive person at even my club’s tabling, I now was responsible for going up to English-speaking or non-Korean tourists and promoting the museum to them. If you were approached by me on that day and kindly refused, please know that I was equally awkward inside and so, so drained! (However, later this week I did see a few visitors at the museum that I recognized from my tabling.)

We had a new installation go up this week, titled “Voices Overlapping Across Time.” This exhibit features an array of nine posters from across the last forty decades and from across the world, all advertising different celebrations of International Women’s Day. These posters lie behind two sheer curtains printed with the face of a halmoni and her words in a powerful speech. As I created promotional social media posts for this new exhibit, I found myself entrenched even more deeply in the resilience and power of her words and the movement to rectify these historical tragedies. You can find the video I made here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DW6BBQkEexl/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

I finished my self-started project from the prior week, which is now awaiting formatting and I will soon incorporate that onto the website. This was a self-started task to begin translating the reviews of English-speaking education sessions for the website. I hope to be able to share my results soon!

This week, getting used to the pace and the regular activities that are deeply outside of my comfort zone drained me each night. However, I am thrilled to have already learned so much in such a short time, and I am excited for work on the new mural to begin in earnest next week!

Annabelle Kim (She/Her)

Student/Research Assistant, Georgetown University

Hi! My name is Annabelle Kim and I'm a rising senior at Georgetown University. I am majoring in Public Policy and Economics. I'm from the San Francisco Bay Area–Pleasanton, CA to be specific. Throughout my studies and my career, I hope to contribute to improving educational equity in the U.S. K-12 system, with a special focus on marginalized students within high-performing districts.

I am currently completing my LiA project at the War and Women's Human Rights Museum in Seoul, Korea.

In summer 2024, I researched within-district disparities between continuation high schools and comprehensive high schools in California. Continuation schools (alternative high schools for students at risk of not graduating) have higher per-pupil funding than their traditional brick-and-mortar counterparts. Despite this, facilities and services provided to these students often fall far behind--I hope to clarify why that might be. My research builds on my experience researching school funding decisions nationwide with a faculty member of Georgetown's McCourt School of Public Policy.

A fun fact about me is that I've technically flown a plane before I got my driver's license...and that even now I'd far prefer flying a plane to driving on a California freeway.