Comments by "Kao rin" (@kaorin2200) on "Asian Boss" channel.

  1. “Being a comfort women is basically an occupation. Their job was to offer sexual services in order to make money. Women cannot go to comfort stations to do this work without legal authorization. They are not simply taken away. In most cases, they were sold by their fathers and mothers, if not of their own free will. The reason is that, to be a comfort woman, or to work for a sexual service business operator, a contract is absolutely necessary. The contract requires written consent signed by a legal guardian. The legal guardian can be a parent or a family member. For this, an official copy of the family register was required. This was necessary because it was important to make sure who the legal guardian was and, even more importantly, age had to be verified. In those days, a woman had to be a least 17 years of age to be permitted to work as a prostitute. Those under 17 were not allowed to work in brothels at all. It was strict. However, KIM Bok-dong, who was made the figurehead by the MOON Jae-in administration, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, the Korean Council, said that she was taken away at the age of 14 to become a comfort woman. This is a lie. LEE Yong-soo, as you may know well, “was 14 when she was taken away by the Japanese army at night while she was sleeping,” which is in a book written by YOON Mi-hyang. This is a lie. In her initial testimony, LEE Yong-soo says that she followed a friend called KIM Bon-soon to meet a certain person. Now, none of these women, KIM Hak-soon, LEE Yong-soo, KIL Won-ok or KIM Bok-dong, said in their testimonies that they were taken away by the Japanese army. YOON Mi-hyang of the Korean Council, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family and Moon Jae-in are all lying. All of you must know the truth. --Director of the Korean History Textbook Research Institute
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  2. The U.S. military interrogated hundreds of Korean POWs that belonged to the Japanese Army. They FREQENTED comfort stations, and the following was what they said about Korean comfort women. "All Korean prostitutes that POWs have seen in the Pacific were volunteers or had been sold by their parents into prostitution. This is proper in the Korean way of thinking, but direct conscription of women by the Japanese would be an outrage that the old and young alike would not tolerate. Men would rise up in a rage, killing Japanese no matter what consequence they might suffer."
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  3. In 1992,the most famous Korean comfort woman Lee Yong-soo testified on Korean TV show(KBS)‬ ‪"At the time I was shabbily dressed and wretched. You don't know how pleased I was when I received a red dress and a pair of leather shoes from a KOREAN RECRUITER."‬
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  4. Lee Young-hoon, Korean professor of Seoul National University says “It is an internationally well-known fact that SK has a culture of lies. In 2014 1,400 persons were prosecuted for perjury, 172 times the Japanese equivalent (or 430 times, if population difference is taken into account). There were 1,250 times as many charges stemming from false accusations than in Japan. Insurance fraud is rampant; in 2014 total insurance fraud amounted to 4.5 trillion won, 100 times the US figure” These figures alone give a clear picture of the nature of disputes between Japan and Korea.
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  5. The price of the comfort women statue is US$30000 Mini comfort women statue is US$25 The statue is sold by Korean council, which is famous for fundraising scam, and they make a huge profit together with the creator of the statue. Yoon Mi-hyang, the former chair women of Korean council made comfort women lie, embezzled US$5 million raised through comfort women fundraising and built a luxurious villa for herself. Surprisingly, the organisation only spends 2.3% of its profits on comfort women, and there have been reports of abuse, including mental and physical punishment, of comfort women in its facilities. This organisation is not really working for justice for the comfort women, and if the problem is solved, they will not be able to make any money. So, no matter how much Japan apologises or compensates, they try to prevent the issue from being resolved.
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  6. “Being a comfort women is basically an occupation. Their job was to offer sexual services in order to make money. Women cannot go to comfort stations to do this work without legal authorization. They are not simply taken away. In most cases, they were sold by their fathers and mothers, if not of their own free will. The reason is that, to be a comfort woman, or to work for a sexual service business operator, a contract is absolutely necessary. The contract requires written consent signed by a legal guardian. The legal guardian can be a parent or a family member. For this, an official copy of the family register was required. This was necessary because it was important to make sure who the legal guardian was and, even more importantly, age had to be verified. In those days, a woman had to be a least 17 years of age to be permitted to work as a pros**tute. Those under 17 were not allowed to work in brothels at all. It was strict. However, KIM Bok-dong, who was made the figurehead by the MOON Jae-in administration, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, the Korean Council, said that she was taken away at the age of 14 to become a comfort woman. This is a lie. LEE Yong-soo, as you may know well, “was 14 when she was taken away by the Japanese army at night while she was sleeping,” which is in a book written by YOON Mi-hyang. This is a lie. In her initial testimony, LEE Yong-soo says that she followed a friend called KIM Bon-soon to meet a certain person. Now, none of these women, KIM Hak-soon, LEE Yong-soo, KIL Won-ok or KIM Bok-dong, said in their testimonies that they were taken away by the Japanese army. YOON Mi-hyang of the Korean Council, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family and Moon Jae-in are all lying. All of you must know the truth. --Director of the Korean History Textbook Research Institute
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  7. A Taiwanese eye witness testified: "The South Korean government is telling total lies. For example, regarding the comfort women for Japan in those days, they were all volunteers. The reason why they volunteered was the wages. At that time, the average civil servant earned about 40 yen per month. Girls in bars and taverns could earn about 50 to 60 yen. However, if they become comfort women, they could earn 200 yen per month. They could earn 4 to 5 times more than the average worker. So naturally, lots of girls applied voluntarily because when they worked as comfort women, they could live their whole lives using these earnings. To become a comfort woman, they took out a 2 year contract, and if they worked for 2 years, they could get enough money to live for the rest of their lives. That’s why so many people applied voluntarily. Some said they became military nurses and then were forced to become comfort women, but it’s a lie. It’s a blatant lie! At that time, going to a battleground overseas and coming back to Japan as a comfort woman meant that other people might treat you as a spy and accuse you of being a war criminal. So, everybody forged themselves identities as nurses when they came back, which makes it a complete lie."
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  8. -Coaching comfort women and stage-managing testimonies at the UN Tachi saw one other important thing during the UN conference. When she got lost and was wandering through the huge building where the meeting was taking place, she stumbled upon a room where people were gathering. Here, former comfort women who were testifying on a stage were being prompted and trained on how to deliver their lines. Unsurprisingly, the people who were stage-managing the whole operation were Japanese women (activists close tie with communists). In this manner, the former comfort women were being trained as living witnesses to serve the movement.
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  9. A diary written by a Korean comfort station manager was discovered in 2013, and it makes it clear that Korean businessmen not only recruited Korean women but also owned and operated comfort stations. The diary contains the detailed account of Korean owners wire transferring huge profit they made from operating comfort stations. Comfort station operators were non-military civilians. Monthly reports by local Japanese consul generals in various Chinese cities identify comfort station operators with Korean comfort women as Korean. No Japanese-operated comfort station was reported with Korean women. The comfort stations were civilian-operated businesses. The diary author himself earned 43,000 yen in two years’ time—an enormous sum when one considers the average monthly worker’s salary during that period of time was just 40 yen.
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  10. A former Korean comfort woman Bae Chun-hee said she hated her father who sold her. She said that men who recruited Korean women and operated comfort stations were “ALL KOREAN”
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  11. Kim said she has never received an apology from Japan, which is a flat-out lie. The truth is that comfort women's organization “Korean council” embezzle donations, force comfort women to lie, obstruct reconciliation with Japan, so that they can continue the comfort women propaganda. Japanese government was deceived by the comfort women’s lies and apologized many times and paid huge amounts of compensation to the Korean women, but the Korean government has not given it to the women. *Japan-South Korea Treaty of 1965 During treaty negotiations, the Japanese government asked the S Korean government to identify and separate individual claims from the treaty because the Japanese government wanted to make sure the survivors received compensation. The South Korean government declined and accepted the entire sum of 800 million dollars (over ten billion dollars in today's money) in place of its citizens and spent all of it on infrastructures. Therefore it is not reasonable for the South Korean government to keep asking for additional compensation from Japan. *South Korean government signed Japan-Korea agreement on the comfort women issue in 2015 and Japanese government paid 1 billion dollars as atonement money to the former Korean comfort women even though there was no coercion. However, The administration of Korea’s Moon Jae In abandoned the agreement in 2018 without any notification . The dissolution announcement is totally unacceptable for Japan. While the Government of the ROK, including President Moon Jae-in, repeatedly stated in public that it “will not abandon the agreement” and “will not ask for a renegotiation with Japan” *Asian Women’s Fund When Japan offered compensation through Asian Women's Fund in 1995, 61 former Korean comfort women defied Korean council's order and accepted compensation. Those 61 women were vilified as traitors. Their names and addresses were published in newspapers as pros**tutes, and they had to live the rest of their lives in disgrace. So the rest of the women were terrified of Korean council and wouldn't dare to defy again. Korean council (some of its members were arrested as North Korean spi*es) has used the comfort women issue for its political purpose, which is to drive a wedge into U.S.-Japan-South Korea security partnership.” And their claim that they were forced into pros**tution is also a lie. A Korean professor interviewed the Korean women in 2003. After the interview professor commented: “I could sense that women were not happy being confined in this place. One of the women (Bae Chun-hee) told me she reminisced the romance she had with a Japanese soldier. She said she hated her father who sold her. She also told me that women there didn't appreciate being coached by Korean council to give false testimonies but had to obey Korean council's order.
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  12. As academics, we are used to dealing with exaggerations. We are not used to finding that the story is pure fiction. But that is the nature of the comfort-women-se*x-slave story. It’s been a bizarrely unending story. Elderly Korean women claim to have been forced at Japanese bayonet-point to work as sex slaves. The Japanese government replies that the Korean government waived claims like this by treaty in 1965. But it expresses sympathy anyway, and offers more money. Koreans still complain. The Japanese government apologizes again, offers more money, and the Korean government promises never to raise the question again. Then a new political party takes power, declares the Japanese apology insincere, and starts the process all over again. Expressing sympathy to elderly women who have had a rough life is fine. Paying money to an ally in order to rebuild a stable relationship is fine. But the claims about enslaved Korean comfort women are historically untrue. The Japanese army did not dragoon Korean women to work in its brothels. It did not use Korean women as s*ex slaves. The claims to the contrary are simply ー factually ー false. -HARVARD university JOHN M. OLIN CENTER FOR LAW, ECONOMICS, AND BUSINESS
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  13. The price of the comfort women statue is US$30000 Mini comfort women statue is US$25 The statue is sold by Korean council, which is famous for fundraising scam, and they make a huge profit together with the creator of the statue. Yoon Mi-hyang, the former chair women of Korean council made comfort women lie, embezzled US$5 million raised through comfort women fundraising and built a luxurious villa for herself. Surprisingly, the organisation only spends 2.3% of its profits on comfort women, and there have been reports of abuse, including mental and physical punishment, of comfort women in its facilities. This organisation is not really working for justice for the comfort women, and if the problem is solved, they will not be able to make any money. So, no matter how much Japan apologises or compensates, they try to prevent the issue from being resolved.
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  14. Korean professor of Seoul National University says “It is an internationally well-known fact that SK has a culture of lies. In 2014 1,400 persons were prosecuted for perjury, 172 times the Japanese equivalent (or 430 times, if population difference is taken into account). There were 1,250 times as many charges stemming from false accusations than in Japan. Insurance fraud is rampant; in 2014 total insurance fraud amounted to 4.5 trillion won, 100 times the US figure” These figures alone give a clear picture of the nature of disputes between Japan and Korea.
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  15. As academics, we are used to dealing with exaggerations. We are not used to finding that the story is pure fiction. But that is the nature of the comfort-women-se*x-slave story. It’s been a bizarrely unending story. Elderly Korean women claim to have been forced at Japanese bayonet-point to work as sex slaves. The Japanese government replies that the Korean government waived claims like this by treaty in 1965. But it expresses sympathy anyway, and offers more money. Koreans still complain. The Japanese government apologizes again, offers more money, and the Korean government promises never to raise the question again. Then a new political party takes power, declares the Japanese apology insincere, and starts the process all over again. Expressing sympathy to elderly women who have had a rough life is fine. Paying money to an ally in order to rebuild a stable relationship is fine. But the claims about enslaved Korean comfort women are historically untrue. The Japanese army did not dragoon Korean women to work in its brothels. It did not use Korean women as s*ex slaves. The claims to the contrary are simply ー factually ー false. -HARVARD university JOHN M. OLIN CENTER FOR LAW, ECONOMICS, AND BUSINESS
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  16. The Fabrication and Spread of the "Comfort Women = Sex Slaves" Theory By Fujioka Nobukatsu Totsuka Etsuro: The author of the “sex slave” concept The man who first proposed to the United Nations that the comfort women be referred to as “sex slaves” was the Japanese human rights lawyer Totsuka Etsuro(CCP’s lobbyist) Totsuka brought up the term “sex slave” before the UN Commission on Human Rights, and before long UN bodies had accordingly defined the comfort women as being “sex slaves”. The idea that the comfort women were sex slaves did not arise from the findings of any empirical investigation, nor was it conceptualized on the basis of any facts. Totsuka said that the idea of adopting the term “sex slaves” simply popped into his mind one day. According to Fujiki, when Totsuka was asked about how he came up with the term “sex slaves”, he said, “I had a hunch! It was intuition!” He then continued as follows: “It’s amazing, isn’t it? I had been frequenting the United Nations for thirty-four years. During that time, I submitted over twenty motions to discuss instances of Japanese human rights violations and delivered statements on them here, but not one was taken up. And yet, in 1992, when I reframed the comfort women as being sex slaves, the UN commissioners were glued to my every word. So you see, it’s incredible, isn’t it?”
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  17. Koreli bilim adamı ifade verdi: “ Kadınların bu yerde hapsedilmekten mutlu olmadıklarını hissedebiliyordum. Kadınlardan biri (Bae Chun-hee) bana bir Japon askeriyle yaşadığı romantizmi hatırladığını söyledi. Onu satan babasından nefret ettiğini söyledi. Ayrıca, oradaki kadınların Kore konseyi (Comfort women's organization) tarafından sahte tanıklıklar vermek için eğitilmeyi takdir etmediklerini, ancak Kore konseyi'nin emrine uymak zorunda kaldıklarını söyledi. Japonya, 1995 yılında Asyalı Kadınlar Fonu aracılığıyla tazminat teklif ettiğinde, 61 eski Koreli konfor kadını Kore konseyi'nin emrine meydan okudu ve tazminatı kabul etti. O 61 kadın hain olarak aşağılandı. İsimleri ve adresleri gazetelerde fahişe olarak yayınlandı ve hayatlarının geri kalanını utanç içinde yaşamak zorunda kaldılar. Bu yüzden kadınların geri kalanı Kore konseyinden korkuyordu ve bir daha meydan okumaya cesaret edemezdi. Kore konseyi (üyelerinden bazıları Kuzey Kore casusları olarak tutuklandı), konfor kadınları meselesini ABD-Japonya-Güney Kore güvenlik ortaklığına bir kama sürmek olan siyasi amacı için kullandı.” -Comfort Women Articles by Scholars
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  18. As academics, we are used to dealing with exaggerations. We are not used to finding that the story is pure fiction. But that is the nature of the comfort-women-se*x-slave story. It’s been a bizarrely unending story. Elderly Korean women claim to have been forced at Japanese bayonet-point to work as sex slaves. The Japanese government replies that the Korean government waived claims like this by treaty in 1965. But it expresses sympathy anyway, and offers more money. Koreans still complain. The Japanese government apologizes again, offers more money, and the Korean government promises never to raise the question again. Then a new political party takes power, declares the Japanese apology insincere, and starts the process all over again. Expressing sympathy to elderly women who have had a rough life is fine. Paying money to an ally in order to rebuild a stable relationship is fine. But the claims about enslaved Korean comfort women are historically untrue. The Japanese army did not dragoon Korean women to work in its brothels. It did not use Korean women as s*ex slaves. The claims to the contrary are simply ー factually ー false. -HARVARD university JOHN M. OLIN CENTER FOR LAW, ECONOMICS, AND BUSINESS
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  19. A Taiwanese eye witness testified: "The South Korean government is telling total lies. For example, regarding the comfort women for Japan in those days, they were all volunteers. The reason why they volunteered was the wages. At that time, the average civil servant earned about 40 yen per month. Girls in bars and taverns could earn about 50 to 60 yen. However, if they become comfort women, they could earn 200 yen per month. They could earn 4 to 5 times more than the average worker. So naturally, lots of girls applied voluntarily because when they worked as comfort women, they could live their whole lives using these earnings. To become a comfort woman, they took out a 2 year contract, and if they worked for 2 years, they could get enough money to live for the rest of their lives. That’s why so many people applied voluntarily. Some said they became military nurses and then were forced to become comfort women, but it’s a lie. It’s a blatant lie! At that time, going to a battleground overseas and coming back to Japan as a comfort woman meant that other people might treat you as a spy and accuse you of being a war criminal. So, everybody forged themselves identities as nurses when they came back, which makes it a complete lie."
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  20. The US government, under the Clinton and Bush administrations, spent 7 years and 30 million dollars to look into German and Japanese war crimes. After 7 years of research, they found no evidence of the forced prostitution of comfort women, the Nanjing Massacre. The IWG report was published in the spring of 2007. Out of millions of pages of newly declassified material, much of it related to Japan, and they were unable to find evidence of forced prostitution. They also looked for information about the Nanjing Massacre and unit 731, but found no smoking guns. Nobody doubts that there was a massacre in Nanjing, and nobody doubts the Chinese ability to exaggerate by orders of magnitude, and then to believe their own stories. A Chinese organization lobbied for the IWG investigation. The “Global Alliance for Preserving the History of WWII in Asia” (Global Alliance). It should be noted that Global Alliance was closely associated with Iris Chang, author of “The Rape of Nanking”. Surprisingly, the IWG report offers an apology to Global Alliance for not finding anything.
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  21. A Taiwanese eye witness testified: "The South Korean government is telling total lies. For example, regarding the comfort women for Japan in those days, they were all volunteers. The reason why they volunteered was the wages. At that time, the average civil servant earned about 40 yen per month. Girls in bars and taverns could earn about 50 to 60 yen. However, if they become comfort women, they could earn 200 yen per month. They could earn 4 to 5 times more than the average worker. So naturally, lots of girls applied voluntarily because when they worked as comfort women, they could live their whole lives using these earnings. To become a comfort woman, they took out a 2 year contract, and if they worked for 2 years, they could get enough money to live for the rest of their lives. That’s why so many people applied voluntarily. Some said they became military nurses and then were forced to become comfort women, but it’s a lie. It’s a blatant lie! At that time, going to a battleground overseas and coming back to Japan as a comfort woman meant that other people might treat you as a spy and accuse you of being a war criminal. So, everybody forged themselves identities as nurses when they came back, which makes it a complete lie."
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  22. If Koreans thoght the Japanese comfort women system was so bad, why did the Korean Government set up a similar 'comfort women' system for US/UN soldiers after the Japanese left Korea? U.S. Soldiers and South Korea’s “Western Princesses” When President Park Chung-hee seized power through a military coup in 1961, he initiated a “social purification drive” that included a “pros**tution prevention law.” However, rather than eliminate pros**tution, Park instead created 104 special pros**tution districts, being desperate to retain the cash that American soldiers would otherwise spend in Japan. Referred to as “Yankee Princesses” or “Western Princesses,” women who worked in these districts were lectured to by Korean university professors, who lauded them for helping to accrue “precious foreign currency for the nation’s economic development” and for performing “patriotic” work.
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  23. The U.S. military interrogated hundreds of Korean POWs that belonged to the Japanese Army. They FREQENTED comfort stations, and the following was what they said about Korean comfort women. "All Korean prostitutes that POWs have seen in the Pacific were volunteers or had been sold by their parents into prostitution. This is proper in the Korean way of thinking, but direct conscription of women by the Japanese would be an outrage that the old and young alike would not tolerate. Men would rise up in a rage, killing Japanese no matter what consequence they might suffer."
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  24. According to report in Korea in 1941, There were 3744 Korean brokers and 211 Japanese brokers. 95% of them were Korean
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  25. We in the West have embraced an odd "narrative." The Japanese army of the 1930s and 1940s, we write, forcibly drafted 200,000 mostly Korean teenage girls into "rape camps" called "comfort stations." Should anyone question the story, we summarily consign the person to "denier" status. This makes for a strange phenomenon. Only a few of the comfort women claim to have been forcibly recruited, and several of them had told a different story before the reparations campaign against Japan began. A strongly leftist affiliate runs their nursing home, controls whom they can see, and vilifies any woman who might say anything else. In fact, no one has ever located any documentary evidence that the Japanese military forcibly recruited any Korean woman into a comfort station. And when Korean academics question the orthodox account, their own government sometimes prosecutes them for criminal defamation -- indeed, sent one heterodox professor last fall to six months in prison -Comfort Women and the Professors HARVARD JOHN M. OLIN CENTER FOR LAW, ECONOMICS, AND BUSINESS
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  26. A diary written by a Korean comfort station manager was discovered in 2013, and it makes it clear that Korean businessmen not only recruited Korean women but also owned and operated comfort stations. The diary contains the detailed account of Korean owners wire transferring huge profit they made from operating comfort stations. Comfort station operators were non-military civilians. Monthly reports by local Japanese consul generals in various Chinese cities identify comfort station operators with Korean comfort women as Korean. No Japanese-operated comfort station was reported with Korean women. The comfort stations were civilian-operated businesses. The diary author himself earned 43,000 yen in two years’ time—an enormous sum when one considers the average monthly worker’s salary during that period of time was just 40 yen.
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  27. We in the West have embraced an odd "narrative." The Japanese army of the 1930s and 1940s, we write, forcibly drafted 200,000 mostly Korean teenage girls into "rape camps" called "comfort stations." Should anyone question the story, we summarily consign the person to "denier" status. This makes for a strange phenomenon. Only a few of the comfort women claim to have been forcibly recruited, and several of them had told a different story before the reparations campaign against Japan began. A strongly leftist affiliate runs their nursing home, controls whom they can see, and vilifies any woman who might say anything else. In fact, no one has ever located any documentary evidence that the Japanese military forcibly recruited any Korean woman into a comfort station. And when Korean academics question the orthodox account, their own government sometimes prosecutes them for criminal defamation -- indeed, sent one heterodox professor last fall to six months in prison -Comfort Women and the Professors HARVARD JOHN M. OLIN CENTER FOR LAW, ECONOMICS, AND BUSINESS
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  28. An article in Korean newspaper Kyunghyang Shinmun on June 6, 1977. It says that a Korean comfort station owner traff_cked dozens of Korean comfort women to Rabaul, Papua New Guinea to provide sex to Japanese/ Korean soldiers there during World War II. It was common knowledge in S Korea until the 1970s that Korean comfort station owners recruited Korean women and operated comfort stations, and no S Koreans contested that notion. Then Japanese newspaper published a series of fabricated articles in the 1980's falsely accusing Japanese military of abd_ucting Korean comfort women. S Korean communists with close ties to N Korea thought this was a great opportunity to discredit Japan and block reconciliation between Japan and S Korea. So they formed the anti-Japan lobby group in 1990 and began spreading comfort women lies worldwide.
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  29. A Taiwanese eye witness testified: "The South Korean government is telling total lies. For example, regarding the comfort women for Japan in those days, they were all volunteers. The reason why they volunteered was the wages. At that time, the average civil servant earned about 40 yen per month. Girls in bars and taverns could earn about 50 to 60 yen. However, if they become comfort women, they could earn 200 yen per month. They could earn 4 to 5 times more than the average worker. So naturally, lots of girls applied voluntarily because when they worked as comfort women, they could live their whole lives using these earnings. To become a comfort woman, they took out a 2 year contract, and if they worked for 2 years, they could get enough money to live for the rest of their lives. That’s why so many people applied voluntarily. Some said they became military nurses and then were forced to become comfort women, but it’s a lie. It’s a blatant lie! At that time, going to a battleground overseas and coming back to Japan as a comfort woman meant that other people might treat you as a spy and accuse you of being a war criminal. So, everybody forged themselves identities as nurses when they came back, which makes it a complete lie."
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  30. Kim said she has never received an apology from Japan, which is a flat-out lie. The truth is that comfort women's organization “Korean council” embezzle donations, force comfort women to lie, obstruct reconciliation with Japan, so that they can continue the comfort women propaganda. Japanese government was deceived by the comfort women’s lies and apologized many times and paid huge amounts of compensation to the Korean women, but the Korean government has not given it to the women. *Japan-South Korea Treaty of 1965 During treaty negotiations, the Japanese government asked the S Korean government to identify and separate individual claims from the treaty because the Japanese government wanted to make sure the survivors received compensation. The South Korean government declined and accepted the entire sum of 800 million dollars (over ten billion dollars in today's money) in place of its citizens and spent all of it on infrastructures. Therefore it is not reasonable for the South Korean government to keep asking for additional compensation from Japan. *South Korean government signed Japan-Korea agreement on the comfort women issue in 2015 and Japanese government paid 1 billion dollars as atonement money to the former Korean comfort women even though there was no coercion. However, The administration of Korea’s Moon Jae In abandoned the agreement in 2018 without any notification . The dissolution announcement is totally unacceptable for Japan. While the Government of the ROK, including President Moon Jae-in, repeatedly stated in public that it “will not abandon the agreement” and “will not ask for a renegotiation with Japan” *Asian Women’s Fund When Japan offered compensation through Asian Women's Fund in 1995, 61 former Korean comfort women defied Korean council's order and accepted compensation. Those 61 women were vilified as traitors. Their names and addresses were published in newspapers as pros**tutes, and they had to live the rest of their lives in disgrace. So the rest of the women were terrified of Korean council and wouldn't dare to defy again. Korean council (some of its members were arrested as North Korean spi*es) has used the comfort women issue for its political purpose, which is to drive a wedge into U.S.-Japan-South Korea security partnership.” And their claim that they were forced into pros**tution is also a lie. A Korean professor interviewed the Korean women in 2003. After the interview professor commented: “I could sense that women were not happy being confined in this place. One of the women (Bae Chun-hee) told me she reminisced the romance she had with a Japanese soldier. She said she hated her father who sold her. She also told me that women there didn't appreciate being coached by Korean council to give false testimonies but had to obey Korean council's order.
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  31. Korean newspaper Donga Ilbo on August 31, 1939. It says, "About 100 Korean women were abd*ucted by Korean comfort station owners' agents but were rescued by Japanese policemen." There are dozens of reports like this. ⚫︎ East Asia Daily, December 4, 1938. Korean,田 斗漢 58, was arrested for kid_napping Japanese girls Sadako Shimomura, 19, and Shizuka Sugawara, 17, trying to sell to Manchurian pros_ titute. Article: Korea Location: Pusan Criminals: Korean Victim: Japanese Police: JP and KO March 28, 1939 Donga Ilbo Over 50 women were deceived by a Korean traff*cker (Bae Jang-eon 배장언)  and sent to Northern China & Manchuria. He was arrested and the women were rescued by Japanese policemen.
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  32. As academics, we are used to dealing with exaggerations. We are not used to finding that the story is pure fiction. But that is the nature of the comfort-women-se*x-slave story. It’s been a bizarrely unending story. Elderly Korean women claim to have been forced at Japanese bayonet-point to work as sex slaves. The Japanese government replies that the Korean government waived claims like this by treaty in 1965. But it expresses sympathy anyway, and offers more money. Koreans still complain. The Japanese government apologizes again, offers more money, and the Korean government promises never to raise the question again. Then a new political party takes power, declares the Japanese apology insincere, and starts the process all over again. Expressing sympathy to elderly women who have had a rough life is fine. Paying money to an ally in order to rebuild a stable relationship is fine. But the claims about enslaved Korean comfort women are historically untrue. The Japanese army did not dragoon Korean women to work in its brothels. It did not use Korean women as s*ex slaves. The claims to the contrary are simply ー factually ー false. -HARVARD university JOHN M. OLIN CENTER FOR LAW, ECONOMICS, AND BUSINESS
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  33. A Taiwanese eye witness testified: "The South Korean government is telling total lies. For example, regarding the comfort women for Japan in those days, they were all volunteers. The reason why they volunteered was the wages. At that time, the average civil servant earned about 40 yen per month. Girls in bars and taverns could earn about 50 to 60 yen. However, if they become comfort women, they could earn 200 yen per month. They could earn 4 to 5 times more than the average worker. So naturally, lots of girls applied voluntarily because when they worked as comfort women, they could live their whole lives using these earnings. To become a comfort woman, they took out a 2 year contract, and if they worked for 2 years, they could get enough money to live for the rest of their lives. That’s why so many people applied voluntarily. Some said they became military nurses and then were forced to become comfort women, but it’s a lie. It’s a blatant lie! At that time, going to a battleground overseas and coming back to Japan as a comfort woman meant that other people might treat you as a spy and accuse you of being a war criminal. So, everybody forged themselves identities as nurses when they came back, which makes it a complete lie."
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  34. 6 Haziran 1977'de Kore gazetesi Kyunghyang Shinmun'da bir makale. Koreli bir konfor istasyonu sahibinin, İkinci Dünya Savaşı sırasında oradaki Japon / Koreli askerlere seks sağlamak için Papua Yeni Gine'nin Rabaul kentine düzinelerce Koreli konfor kadını kaçırdığını söylüyor. 1970'lere kadar Güney Kore'de Koreli konfor istasyonu sahiplerinin Koreli kadınları işe aldıkları ve konfor istasyonlarını işlettikleri yaygın bir bilgiydi ve hiçbir Güney Koreli bu düşünceye itiraz etmedi. Daha sonra Japon gazetesi, 1980'lerde Japon ordusunu Koreli kadınları kaçırmakla yanlış bir şekilde suçlayan bir dizi uydurma makale yayınladı. Kuzey Kore ile yakın bağları olan Güney Koreli komünistler bunun Japonya'yı itibarsızlaştırmak ve Japonya ile Güney Kore arasındaki uzlaşmayı engellemek için büyük bir fırsat olduğunu düşünüyorlardı. Böylece 1990 yılında Japonya karşıtı lobi grubunu kurdular ve dünya çapında konfor kadınları yalanlarını yaymaya başladılar.
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  35. Kim said she has never received an apology from Japan, which is a flat-out lie. The truth is that comfort women's organization “Korean council” embezzle donations, force comfort women to lie, obstruct reconciliation with Japan, so that they can continue the comfort women propaganda. Japanese government was deceived by the comfort women’s lies and apologized many times and paid huge amounts of compensation to the Korean women, but the Korean government has not given it to the women. *Japan-South Korea Treaty of 1965 During treaty negotiations, the Japanese government asked the S Korean government to identify and separate individual claims from the treaty because the Japanese government wanted to make sure the survivors received compensation. The South Korean government declined and accepted the entire sum of 800 million dollars (over ten billion dollars in today's money) in place of its citizens and spent all of it on infrastructures. Therefore it is not reasonable for the South Korean government to keep asking for additional compensation from Japan. *South Korean government signed Japan-Korea agreement on the comfort women issue in 2015 and Japanese government paid 1 billion dollars as atonement money to the former Korean comfort women even though there was no coercion. However, The administration of Korea’s Moon Jae In abandoned the agreement in 2018 without any notification . The dissolution announcement is totally unacceptable for Japan. While the Government of the ROK, including President Moon Jae-in, repeatedly stated in public that it “will not abandon the agreement” and “will not ask for a renegotiation with Japan” *Asian Women’s Fund When Japan offered compensation through Asian Women's Fund in 1995, 61 former Korean comfort women defied Korean council's order and accepted compensation. Those 61 women were vilified as traitors. Their names and addresses were published in newspapers as pros**tutes, and they had to live the rest of their lives in disgrace. So the rest of the women were terrified of Korean council and wouldn't dare to defy again. Korean council (some of its members were arrested as North Korean spi*es) has used the comfort women issue for its political purpose, which is to drive a wedge into U.S.-Japan-South Korea security partnership.” And their claim that they were forced into pros**tution is also a lie. A Korean professor interviewed the Korean women in 2003. After the interview professor commented: “I could sense that women were not happy being confined in this place. One of the women (Bae Chun-hee) told me she reminisced the romance she had with a Japanese soldier. She said she hated her father who sold her. She also told me that women there didn't appreciate being coached by Korean council to give false testimonies but had to obey Korean council's order.
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  36. Korean scholars testified: “Being a comfort women is basically an occupation. Their job was to offer sexual services in order to make money. Women cannot go to comfort stations to do this work without legal authorization. They are not simply taken away. In most cases, they were sold by their fathers and mothers, if not of their own free will. The reason is that, to be a comfort woman, or to work for a sexual service business operator, a contract is absolutely necessary. The contract requires written consent signed by a legal guardian. The legal guardian can be a parent or a family member. For this, an official copy of the family register was required. This was necessary because it was important to make sure who the legal guardian was and, even more importantly, age had to be verified. In those days, a woman had to be a least 17 years of age to be permitted to work as a prostitute. Those under 17 were not allowed to work in brothels at all. It was strict. However, KIM Bok-dong, who was made the figurehead by the MOON Jae-in administration, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, the Korean Council, said that she was taken away at the age of 14 to become a comfort woman. This is a lie. LEE Yong-soo, as you may know well, “was 14 when she was taken away by the Japanese army at night while she was sleeping,” which is in a book written by YOON Mi-hyang. This is a lie. In her initial testimony, LEE Yong-soo says that she followed a friend called KIM Bon-soon to meet a certain person. Now, none of these women, KIM Hak-soon, LEE Yong-soo, KIL Won-ok or KIM Bok-dong, said in their testimonies that they were taken away by the Japanese army. YOON Mi-hyang of the Korean Council, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family and Moon Jae-in are all lying. All of you must know the truth. --Director of the Korean History Textbook Research Institute
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  37. Korea has been collecting fake comfort women from all over the world to suck money from Japan forever, but they have not even apologized for the actual rape victims of Vietnamese women and their children, Lai Dai Han.
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  38. Korean newspaper Donga Ilbo on August 31, 1939. It says, "About 100 Korean women were abducted by Korean comfort station owners' agents but were rescued by Japanese policemen." There are dozens of reports like this. ⚫︎ East Asia Daily, December 4, 1938. Korean,田 斗漢 58, was arrested for kid*napping Japanese girls Sadako Shimomura, 19, and Shizuka Sugawara, 17, trying to sell to Manchurian pros//titute. Article: Korea Location: Pusan Criminals: Korean Victim: Japanese Police: JP and KO ⚫︎1939.03.28 동아일보 50여 처녀가 조선인 인신매매단에 걸려서 북지, 만주에 창기로 팔림. 일본경찰이 구해줌.  March 28, 1939 Donga Ilbo Over 50 women were deceived by a Korean tra*fficker (Bae Jang-eon 배장언)  and sent to Northern China & Manchuria. He was arrested and the women were rescued by Japanese policemen. ⚫︎1933.06.30 동아일보 노상에서 소녀를 유인하여 납치, 추업중인(매춘포주)에게 매도. 범인은 박명동과 이성녀 June 30, 1933 Donga Ilbo A girl was kid*napped from the street by Korean traf*fickers (Park Myeong-dong & Lee Seong-nyeo) ⚫︎1936.05.14 매일신보 농촌부녀유인 악한을 검거. 여자를 만주에 창기로 팔려던 것을 일본경찰이 검거해서 여성을 구출함. 네명의 여자가 마수를 벗어남. May 14, 1936 Maeil Shinbo Tra*ffickers (Korean comfort station owners' agents) were arrested by police for deceiving women from farming villages. Four women were rescued.
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  39. A diary written by a Korean comfort station manager was discovered in 2013, and it makes it clear that Korean businessmen not only recruited Korean women but also owned and operated comfort stations. The diary contains the detailed account of Korean owners wire transferring huge profit they made from operating comfort stations. Comfort station operators were non-military civilians. Monthly reports by local Japanese consul generals in various Chinese cities identify comfort station operators with Korean comfort women as Korean. No Japanese-operated comfort station was reported with Korean women. The comfort stations were civilian-operated businesses. The diary author himself earned 43,000 yen in two years’ time—an enormous sum when one considers the average monthly worker’s salary during that period of time was just 40 yen.
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  40. As academics, we are used to dealing with exaggerations. We are not used to finding that the story is pure fiction. But that is the nature of the comfort-women-se*x-slave story. It’s been a bizarrely unending story. Elderly Korean women claim to have been forced at Japanese bayonet-point to work as sex slaves. The Japanese government replies that the Korean government waived claims like this by treaty in 1965. But it expresses sympathy anyway, and offers more money. Koreans still complain. The Japanese government apologizes again, offers more money, and the Korean government promises never to raise the question again. Then a new political party takes power, declares the Japanese apology insincere, and starts the process all over again. Expressing sympathy to elderly women who have had a rough life is fine. Paying money to an ally in order to rebuild a stable relationship is fine. But the claims about enslaved Korean comfort women are historically untrue. The Japanese army did not dragoon Korean women to work in its brothels. It did not use Korean women as s*ex slaves. The claims to the contrary are simply ー factually ー false. -HARVARD university JOHN M. OLIN CENTER FOR LAW, ECONOMICS, AND BUSINESS
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  41. Korean scholars testified: “Being a comfort women is basically an occupation. Their job was to offer sexual services in order to make money. Women cannot go to comfort stations to do this work without legal authorization. They are not simply taken away. In most cases, they were sold by their fathers and mothers, if not of their own free will. The reason is that, to be a comfort woman, or to work for a sexual service business operator, a contract is absolutely necessary. The contract requires written consent signed by a legal guardian. The legal guardian can be a parent or a family member. In those days, foster fathers were accepted as legal guardians. Foster fathers in those days were typical human traff*ckers. Why? Because they played parent such that they can legally take control of women. For this, an official copy of the family register was required. This was necessary because it was important to make sure who the legal guardian was and, even more importantly, age had to be verified. In those days, a woman had to be a least 17 years of age to be permitted to work as a pros**tute. Those under 17 were not allowed to work in brothels at all. It was strict. However, KIM Bok-dong, who was made the figurehead by the MOON Jae-in administration, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, the Korean Council, said that she was taken away at the age of 14 to become a comfort woman. This is a lie. LEE Yong-soo, as you may know well, “was 14 when she was taken away by the Japanese army at night while she was sleeping,” which is in a book written by YOON Mi-hyang. This is a lie. In her initial testimony, LEE Yong-soo says that she followed a friend called KIM Bon-soon to meet a certain person. When she was given a red dress and a pair of leather shoes in a bag, feeling attracted, before she knew it, she went with them. She said that she was 14. LEE Yong-soo’s age keeps changing. She has mentioned being 14, 15 and 16 and she was 14 in her initial testimony. This is a lie. A 14-year-old girl could not have been a comfort woman. It was just not possible to work as one at the age of 15. The ROK is currently a haven of lies. From the 1960s to 1970s, when women from rural areas were wandering around Seoul Station, someone always approached them to talk to them. They would ask, “Aren’t you hungry? Aren’t you cold?” “Yes.” “Why don’t you come with me? I can give you something to eat in a warm place.” So they followed the person and found themselves in a place that you can easily imagine. That is what happened to comfort women. However, when comfort women were taken away, traders, or procurers, made contracts with their parents and family members and paid in advance. It is a loan from the employer. KIM Hak-soon testified first on August 14, 1991 that she had been a comfort woman. In fact, she was also bought by her foster father for 40 yen. Her mother sold her for 40 yen. KIM Hak-soon’s foster father gave her kisaeng training at an academy and attempted to do business within the country but could not because she fell short of the legal age. Accordingly, in order to take her to China, he asked KIM’s mother if he could “take her to China,” to which she consented. At the time of departure, KIM testified, her mother went to Pyongyang Station to sell her, carrying a yellow sweater. Now, none of these women, KIM Hak-soon, LEE Yong-soo, KIL Won-ok or KIM Bok-dong, said in their testimonies that they were taken away by the Japanese army. YOON Mi-hyang of the Korean Council for the Women Drafted, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family and Moon Jae-in are all lying. All of you must know the truth. The reason why we are making a statement here is that these lies fill the entire ROK, causing conflict and division between Korean people. The lie forces Japan to break their relationship with South Korea. We must know correct history. By knowing correct history, the people’s thinking will be one. In that sense, “the comfort woman statue symbolizing hatred and conflict”, “this comfort woman statue symbolizing lies and fabrication” must definitely be removed.” -Director of the Korean History Textbook Research Institute
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  42. The former Comfort Women’s testimonies are inconsistent and untrustworthy as they were coached by the extremely leftist organization “Korean Council“ ⚫︎In an interview with Professor Chunghee Sarah Soh of San Francisco State University, a former Korean comfort woman Kim Sun-ok said that she was sold by her parents four times. Yet she testified before UN Special Rapporteur Radhika Coomaraswamy that she was abd*ucted by the Japanese military. ⚫︎ In an interview with Professor Park of Sejong University in South Korea, a former Korean comfort woman Bae Chun-hee said she hated her father who sold her. She said that men who recruited Korean women and operated comfort stations were “All Korean”, and that Korean women who testified before UN Special Rapporteur lied on behalf of Korean Council. ⚫︎ According to Professor Chunghee Sarah Soh of San Francisco State University, a former Korean comfort woman Moon Pil-ki was recruited by a Korean comfort station owner's agent and taken to Manchuria with four other women. Yet she testified before UN Special Rapporteur Radhika Coomaraswamy that she was abd*ucted by the Japanese military. ⚫︎A former Korean comfort woman Mun Oku-chu said in her memoir: "I was recruited by a Korean comfort station owner. I saved a considerable amount of money from tips, so I opened a saving account. I could not believe that I could have so much money in my saving account. One of my friends collected many jewels, so I went and bought a diamond. I often went to see Japanese movies and Kabuki plays in which players came from the mainland Japan. I became a popular woman in Rangoon. There were a lot more officers in Rangoon than near the frontlines, so I was invited to many parties. I sang songs at parties and received lots of tips. I put on a pair of high heels, a green coat and carried an alligator leather handbag. I swaggered about in a fashionable dress. No one in town could guess that I was a comfort woman. I felt very happy and proud. I received permission to return home, but I didn't want to go back to Korea. I wanted to stay in Rangoon." According to Professor Ahn Byong Jik of Seoul University, Mun Oku-chu continued to work as a pros***ute in Korea after the war. Yet she testified before UN Special Rapporteur Radhika Coomaraswamy that she was abd*ucted by the Japanese military. ⚫︎ In an interview with Korean newspaper The Hankyoreh (the artcile was published on May 15th, 1991)  a former Korean comfort woman Kim Hak-sun said that she was sold by her mother. In 1993 Kim Hak-sun told Professor Ahn Byong Jik of Seoul University, "My mother sent me to train as a Kiseng in Pyongyang and then sold me." Yet she testified before UN Special Rapporteur Radhika Coomaraswamy that she was abd*ucted by the Japanese military. ⚫︎ In 1993 a former Korean comfort woman Kim Gun-ja told Professor Ahn Byong Jik of Seoul University, "I was sold by my foster father." Yet she testified before UN Special Rapporteur Radhika Coomaraswamy that she was abd*ucted by the Japanese military. Kim Gun-ja also testified before United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs in 2007 and said she was abd*ucted by the Japanese military. ⚫︎ In 1993 a former Korean comfort woman Lee Yong-soo told Professor Ahn Byong Jik of Seoul University, "At the time I was shabbily dressed and wretched. On the day I left home with my friend Kim Pun-sun without telling my mother, I was wearing a black skirt, a cotton shirt and wooden clogs on my feet. You don't know how pleased I was when I received a red dress and a pair of leather shoes from a Korean recruiter." Yet she testified before UN Special Rapporteur Radhika Coomaraswamy that she was abd*ucted by the Japanese military. Lee Yong-soo also testified before United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs in 2007. She was told that she had five minutes to speak. She ignored the instruction and went on for over one hour putting on a performance of crying and screaming. Her false testimony resulted in the passage of United States House of Representatives House Resolution 121. In 2017 Lee Yong-soo gave false testimonies before San Francisco City Council, which resulted in the erection of a comfort women statue in that city. ⚫︎ According to several witnesses, Korean Council (pro-North activist group) coached women to say "I was abducted by the Japanese military." Professor Ahn Byong Jik of Seoul University says, "When I interviewed former comfort women in the early 1990s, none of them had anything bad to say about the Japanese military. They hated their parents who sold them and Korean comfort station owners who mistreated them. But after Korean Council put them on its payroll, their testimonies had completely changed."
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  43. A recruitment advertisement for comfort women by a private company called “Imai Introductory Service” (Korean owner) in a newspaper during that time, it said as follows: Monthly income of 300 yen or more (★Advances of up to 3000yen may be granted) ⚫︎average monthly worker’s salary during that period of time was just 40 yen. ★Pre-borrowing referred to an agreement in which money could be borrowed before you work.
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  44. “Being a comfort women is basically an occupation. Their job was to offer sexual services in order to make money. Women cannot go to comfort stations to do this work without legal authorization. They are not simply taken away. In most cases, they were sold by their fathers and mothers, if not of their own free will. The reason is that, to be a comfort woman, or to work for a sexual service business operator, a contract is absolutely necessary. The contract requires written consent signed by a legal guardian. The legal guardian can be a parent or a family member. For this, an official copy of the family register was required. This was necessary because it was important to make sure who the legal guardian was and, even more importantly, age had to be verified. In those days, a woman had to be a least 17 years of age to be permitted to work as a prostitute. Those under 17 were not allowed to work in brothels at all. It was strict. However, KIM Bok-dong, who was made the figurehead by the MOON Jae-in administration, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, the Korean Council, said that she was taken away at the age of 14 to become a comfort woman. This is a lie. LEE Yong-soo, as you may know well, “was 14 when she was taken away by the Japanese army at night while she was sleeping,” which is in a book written by YOON Mi-hyang. This is a lie. In her initial testimony, LEE Yong-soo says that she followed a friend called KIM Bon-soon to meet a certain person. Now, none of these women, KIM Hak-soon, LEE Yong-soo, KIL Won-ok or KIM Bok-dong, said in their testimonies that they were taken away by the Japanese army. YOON Mi-hyang of the Korean Council, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family and Moon Jae-in are all lying. All of you must know the truth. --Director of the Korean History Textbook Research Institute
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  45. -Coaching comfort women and stage-managing testimonies at the UN Tachi saw one other important thing during the UN conference. When she got lost and was wandering through the huge building where the meeting was taking place, she stumbled upon a room where people were gathering. Here, former comfort women who were testifying on a stage were being prompted and trained on how to deliver their lines. Unsurprisingly, the people who were stage-managing the whole operation were Japanese women (activists close tie with communists). In this manner, the former comfort women were being trained as living witnesses to serve the movement.
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  46. A diary written by a Korean comfort station manager was discovered in 2013, and it makes it clear that Korean businessmen not only recruited Korean women but also owned and operated comfort stations. The diary contains the detailed account of Korean owners wire transferring huge profit they made from operating comfort stations. Comfort station operators were non-military civilians. Monthly reports by local Japanese consul generals in various Chinese cities identify comfort station operators with Korean comfort women as Korean. No Japanese-operated comfort station was reported with Korean women. The comfort stations were civilian-operated businesses. The diary author himself earned 43,000 yen in two years’ time—an enormous sum when one considers the average monthly worker’s salary during that period of time was just 40 yen. The author managed an orchard after returning home, and also served on the board of a private elementary school.
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  47. “Being a comfort women is basically an occupation. Their job was to offer sexual services in order to make money. Women cannot go to comfort stations to do this work without legal authorization. They are not simply taken away. In most cases, they were sold by their fathers and mothers, if not of their own free will. The reason is that, to be a comfort woman, or to work for a sexual service business operator, a contract is absolutely necessary. The contract requires written consent signed by a legal guardian. The legal guardian can be a parent or a family member. For this, an official copy of the family register was required. This was necessary because it was important to make sure who the legal guardian was and, even more importantly, age had to be verified. In those days, a woman had to be a least 17 years of age to be permitted to work as a prostitute. Those under 17 were not allowed to work in brothels at all. It was strict. However, KIM Bok-dong, who was made the figurehead by the MOON Jae-in administration, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, the Korean Council, said that she was taken away at the age of 14 to become a comfort woman. This is a lie. LEE Yong-soo, as you may know well, “was 14 when she was taken away by the Japanese army at night while she was sleeping,” which is in a book written by YOON Mi-hyang. This is a lie. In her initial testimony, LEE Yong-soo says that she followed a friend called KIM Bon-soon to meet a certain person. Now, none of these women, KIM Hak-soon, LEE Yong-soo, KIL Won-ok or KIM Bok-dong, said in their testimonies that they were taken away by the Japanese army. YOON Mi-hyang of the Korean Council, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family and Moon Jae-in are all lying. All of you must know the truth. --Director of the Korean History Textbook Research Institute
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  48. Korean scholar testified: “ I could sense that women were not happy being confined in this place. One of the women (Bae Chun-hee) told me she reminisced the romance she had with a Japanese soldier. She said she hated her father who sold her. She also told me that women there didn't appreciate being coached by Korean council (Comfort women’s organization) to give false testimonies but had to obey Korean council's order. When Japan offered compensation through Asian Women's Fund in 1995, 61 former Korean comfort women defied Korean council's order and accepted compensation. Those 61 women were vilified as traitors. Their names and addresses were published in newspapers as pros*tutes, and they had to live the rest of their lives in disgrace. So the rest of the women were terrified of Korean council and wouldn't dare to defy again. Korean council (some of its members were arrested as North Korean sp ies) has used the comfort women issue for its political purpose, which is to drive a wedge into U.S.-Japan-South Korea security partnership.” - Comfort Women Articles by Scholars
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  49. A diary written by a Korean comfort station manager was discovered in 2013, and it makes it clear that Korean businessmen not only recruited Korean women but also owned and operated comfort stations. The diary contains the detailed account of Korean owners wire transferring huge profit they made from operating comfort stations. Comfort station operators were non-military civilians. Monthly reports by local Japanese consul generals in various Chinese cities identify comfort station operators with Korean comfort women as Korean. No Japanese-operated comfort station was reported with Korean women. The comfort stations were civilian-operated businesses. The diary author himself earned 43,000 yen in two years’ time—an enormous sum when one considers the average monthly worker’s salary during that period of time was just 40 yen.
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  50. We in the West have embraced an odd "narrative." The Japanese army of the 1930s and 1940s, we write, forcibly drafted 200,000 mostly Korean teenage girls into "rape camps" called "comfort stations." Should anyone question the story, we summarily consign the person to "denier" status. This makes for a strange phenomenon. Only a few of the comfort women claim to have been forcibly recruited, and several of them had told a different story before the reparations campaign against Japan began. A strongly leftist affiliate runs their nursing home, controls whom they can see, and vilifies any woman who might say anything else. In fact, no one has ever located any documentary evidence that the Japanese military forcibly recruited any Korean woman into a comfort station. And when Korean academics question the orthodox account, their own government sometimes prosecutes them for criminal defamation -- indeed, sent one heterodox professor last fall to six months in prison -Comfort Women and the Professors HARVARD JOHN M. OLIN CENTER FOR LAW, ECONOMICS, AND BUSINESS
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