Korean cartoons in Algeria

portraits of late former “comfort women” who were forced to serve for the Japanese troops as a sexual slave during World War II. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

A special screening for the Korean cartoon “Flowers that never fade” was held in Algerian capital earlier in October. This cartoon was part of a special exhibition by Korea that aims to detail what comfort women went through because of Japanese soldiers.

This exhibition is part of Algeria’s International festival for Cartoon in its eighth year,  which is considered the biggest cartoon festival in Africa. Thus Algeria became the fourth country to host the Korean exhibition “Flowers that never fade” after France, USA, and China outside Korea.

The Korean committee fro animation development held this exhibition in response to Algeria’s official invitation. As in the previous year other Korean cartoons participated in the festival and garnered positive responses which encouraged the special exhibition.

In the Korean exhibition about 21 cartoons and 5 animations were exhibited under the title “What happened to Comfort Women.” They also held a special exhibition about Korean webtoons, where they went through the history of Korean cartoons and how webtoons developed to make people know more of Korean excellence in cartoon making.