South Korean Comfort Women

Comfort women is a euphemism for the thousands of girls and women most of them korean who were forced to work in japan s brothels before and during world war two when japan occupied korea.

South korean comfort women. Video explaining the comfort women issue between japan and south korea. In post world war ii south korea and japan the comfort women were considered best forgotten. But from the late 1980s south.

New york an english translation of kim soom s 2016 novel han myong one person the first south korean novel centered on so called comfort women those who suffered under japan s military. South korea insists that japan has not truly apologized not even in the 2015 agreement on. Comfort women were mainly women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the imperial japanese army in occupied countries and territories before and during world war ii and the earlier program of voluntary prostitution.

Kang sung hyun a scholar on the comfort women at sungkonghoe university said lee s allegations had shocked south koreans but were now being used as political fodder by conservative critics of. Lee ok seon then 80 in a shelter for former. As the war expanded into the pacific southeast asian region many korean women were sent there too.

The name comfort women is a translation of the japanese ianfu 慰安婦 a euphemism for prostitute s. The comfort women issue has bedeviled relations between japan and south korea for around thirty years. Women made to become comfort women south korea during the sino japanese war korean women with japanese women were sent to comfort stations which the japanese military set up in various places of occupied china.

Estimates vary as to how many women were involved with numbers. There she became one of the tens of thousands of comfort women subjected to forced prostitution by the imperial japanese army between 1932 and 1945.