Comments by "Kao rin" (@kaorin2200) on "Asian Boss"
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“Rahat bir kadın olmak temelde bir meslektir. Görevleri para kazanmak için cinsel hizmetler sunmaktı. Kadınlar yasal izin almadan bu işi yapmak için konfor istasyonlarına gidemezler. Onlar sadece götürülmezler. Çoğu durumda, kendi iradeleriyle olmasa da babaları ve anneleri tarafından satıldılar. Bunun nedeni, rahat bir kadın olmak ya da bir cinsel hizmet işletmecisi için çalışmak için bir sözleşmenin kesinlikle gerekli olmasıdır. Sözleşme, yasal vasi tarafından imzalanmış yazılı onay gerektirir. Yasal vasi bir ebeveyn veya aile üyesi olabilir.
Bunun için aile sicilinin resmi bir kopyası gerekliydi. Bu gerekliydi çünkü yasal vasinin kim olduğundan ve daha da önemlisi yaşın doğrulanması gerektiğinden emin olmak önemliydi. O günlerde, bir kadının fahişe olarak çalışmasına izin verilebilmesi için en az 17 yaşında olması gerekiyordu. 17 Yaşın altındakilerin genelevlerde çalışmasına izin verilmedi. Sıkı oldu.
Bununla birlikte, MOON Jae-in yönetimi, Cinsiyet Eşitliği ve Aile Bakanlığı, Kore Konseyi tarafından figür haline getirilen KİM Bok-dong, 14 yaşında rahat bir kadın olmak için götürüldüğünü söyledi. Bu bir yalandır. LEE Yong-soo, iyi bildiğiniz gibi, YOON Mi-hyang tarafından yazılmış bir kitapta yer alan ”uyurken geceleri Japon ordusu tarafından götürüldüğünde 14 yaşındaydı". Bu bir yalandır. İlk ifadesinde LEE Yong-soo, KİM Bon-soon adında bir arkadaşını belirli bir kişiyle tanışmak için takip ettiğini söylüyor.
Bu kadınlardan hiçbiri, KİM Hak-soon, LEE Yong-soo, KİL Won-ok ya da KİM Bok-dong ifadelerinde Japon ordusu tarafından götürüldüklerini söylemedi. Kore Konseyi'nden YOON Mi-hyang, Cinsiyet Eşitliği ve Aile Bakanlığı ve Moon Jae-in hepsi yalan söylüyor.
Hepiniz gerçeği bilmelisiniz.
--Kore Tarihi Ders Kitabı Araştırma Enstitüsü Müdürü
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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One of the most often repeated and most distorted myths concerning Japan’s supposed crimes against Korea, concerns the so called “comfort women”
In 1965 the Korean government of Park Chung-hee signed a treaty with Japan, normalizing the relations between the two countries. Under the treaty South Korea received very large amounts of economic aid, grants, loans and, significantly, compensation for victims of Japanese rule.
(The Japanese government paid 3 times national budget as a compensation but kept it in secret 40 years in Korea to incite hatred towards Japan and the Korea government keeps trying to hide the truth.
Although all individual claims were settled in the 1965 Japan-South Korea Treaty, the Japanese government still offered compensation several times to the Korean women as a good gesture. However, when Japan offered compensation through Asian Women's Fund in 1995 (Compensation came with a personal letter of apology from Prime Minister of Japan), South Korean NGO thre_atened former comfort women not to accept Japan's apology and the compensation. 61 of those who defied the NGO’s order were verified 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.
SK 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.
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”)
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The Japanese government at that time (1965) offered to compensate individual victims, but the South Korean government refused the offer and insisted that it should receive all the money and itself compensate its citizens. Very little of this money (only USD 250) was paid to individuals and instead was used for economic development of South Korea. The Japanese government has apologized for its comfort women system (which actually was an extension of the licensed pros**tution system that existed both in Korea and Japan before the war and which involved a large number of Japanese pros**tutes as well as those from other countries), Germany has never apologized or paid any compensation to any former pros***utes. In fact, nobody has ever demanded any such things, since these women, which rightly or wrongly were viewed as collaborators in the occupied countries, never found any supporters or defenders”
-Professor Andrzej Kozlowski, University of Warsaw
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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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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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“Rahat bir kadın olmak temelde bir meslektir. Görevleri para kazanmak için cinsel hizmetler sunmaktı. Kadınlar yasal izin almadan bu işi yapmak için konfor istasyonlarına gidemezler. Onlar sadece götürülmezler. Çoğu durumda, kendi iradeleriyle olmasa da babaları ve anneleri tarafından satıldılar. Bunun nedeni, rahat bir kadın olmak ya da bir cinsel hizmet işletmecisi için çalışmak için bir sözleşmenin kesinlikle gerekli olmasıdır. Sözleşme, yasal vasi tarafından imzalanmış yazılı onay gerektirir. Yasal vasi bir ebeveyn veya aile üyesi olabilir.
Bunun için aile sicilinin resmi bir kopyası gerekliydi. Bu gerekliydi çünkü yasal vasinin kim olduğundan ve daha da önemlisi yaşın doğrulanması gerektiğinden emin olmak önemliydi. O günlerde, bir kadının fahişe olarak çalışmasına izin verilebilmesi için en az 17 yaşında olması gerekiyordu. 17 Yaşın altındakilerin genelevlerde çalışmasına izin verilmedi. Sıkı oldu.
Bununla birlikte, MOON Jae-in yönetimi, Cinsiyet Eşitliği ve Aile Bakanlığı, Kore Konseyi tarafından figür haline getirilen KİM Bok-dong, 14 yaşında rahat bir kadın olmak için götürüldüğünü söyledi. Bu bir yalandır. LEE Yong-soo, iyi bildiğiniz gibi, YOON Mi-hyang tarafından yazılmış bir kitapta yer alan ”uyurken geceleri Japon ordusu tarafından götürüldüğünde 14 yaşındaydı". Bu bir yalandır. İlk ifadesinde LEE Yong-soo, KİM Bon-soon adında bir arkadaşını belirli bir kişiyle tanışmak için takip ettiğini söylüyor.
Bu kadınlardan hiçbiri, KİM Hak-soon, LEE Yong-soo, KİL Won-ok ya da KİM Bok-dong ifadelerinde Japon ordusu tarafından götürüldüklerini söylemedi. Kore Konseyi'nden YOON Mi-hyang, Cinsiyet Eşitliği ve Aile Bakanlığı ve Moon Jae-in hepsi yalan söylüyor.
Hepiniz gerçeği bilmelisiniz.
--Kore Tarihi Ders Kitabı Araştırma Enstitüsü Müdürü
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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.
⚫︎ In 1993 a former Korean comfort woman Kil Won-ok told Professor Ahn Byong Jik of Seoul University, "I was sold by my parents."
Yet she testified before UN Special Rapporteur Radhika Coomaraswamy that she was abd*ucted by the Japanese military.
⚫︎ 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."
⚫︎ A former Korean comfort woman Sim Mi-ja who refused to be on Korean Council's payroll said, "The Korean women, who testified before UN Special Rapporteur, lied on behalf of Korean Council. They are swin dlers"
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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
⚫︎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 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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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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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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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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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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"Myself as a comfort woman for Tate Division deployed in Burma" by Moon Okuchu
Page 75
I saved a considerable amount of money from tips. So I asked a clerical staff whether or not I could have a saving account and put the money in the account. His reply was positive. I knew that all the soldiers put their earnings in the saving accounts in the field post office, so I decided to put my money in the saving account. I asked a soldier to make a personal seal and put 500 yen in the account. I got my savings passbook and found 500 yen written on the passbook. I became the owner of the savings passbook for the first time in my life. I worked in Daegu as a nanny and a street seller from the childhood but I remained poor no matter how hard I worked. I could not believe that I could have so much money in my saving account. A house in Daegu cost 1,000 yen at the time. I could let my mother have an easy life. I felt very happy and proud. The savings passbook became my treasure.
Page 98
Ichiro Yamada came to see me once a week and I was in a great mood on that day from the morning. But if he did not show up on his once a week holiday, I became so worried wondering if he was killed by the enemy that I could not work properly. He made me worry so much.
(In Rangoon, Burma)
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I was able to have more freedom in Rangoon than before. Of course, not completely free but I could go out once a week or twice a month with permission from the Korean owner. It was fun to go shopping by rickshaw. I can't forget the experience of shopping in a market in Rangoon. There were lots of jewelry shops because many jewels were produced in Burma, and ruby and jade were not expensive. One of my friends collected many jewels. I thought I should have a jewel myself, so I went and bought a diamond.
Page 107
I often went to see Japanese movies and Kabuki plays in which players came from the mainland Japan. I enjoyed watching players change costumes many times and male players portray women’s roles. 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.
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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 could guess that I was a comfort woman. I felt so happy and proud.
Page 137
I withdrew 5,000 yen from my saving account and sent it to my mother.
The average monthly wage at that time was about 40 yen.
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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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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1953 Jul 21 - "Country Girls Lured into Prost!tution"
This July 7, 1953 article from the South Korean newspaper Donga Ilbo describes a typical means by which innocent Korean girls were lured into prost*tution. That is, they are promised a good job, put into debt, and then forced to pay back the debt by working as prost*tutes.
“When I was in South Korea in the navy in the late 1970s, the typical method was to put ads promising high-paying waitress jobs in cheap magazines. When girls showed up, they were given a furnished apartment to put them in high-interest debt, which their waitress salaries would never be able to pay off, which forced them into prost*tution. At that time a person could not walk away from debt or declare personal bankruptcy.”
Country Girls Lured into Prost*tution
Go Ok-i (高玉伊), a 53-year-old woman who lives at No. 83 on 3rd Street in the Cho Ryang-dong area of Hanmok City, was operating a comfort woman business for UN servicemen until she suspended operations because of financial difficulties. Then on the 3rd of this month, with the intention of reopenning her business, Ms. Go had her maid, Im Mi-ja (林미子), lure five virgins, including 15-year-old Gang Pil-yeon (姜必連) of Jinju City (at No. 888 in Tongbong-dong), to Busan with promises of getting them jobs in the 34th Military Hospital.
Telling the girls that they would need to wear "high-class" clothes if they expected to be hired, Ms. Go gave each of the six girls an advance of 5,000 hwan worth of high-class clothing with the idea of putting them to work as comfort women. However, she was detected by police authorities prior to that, and on the 7th, Ms. Go and Ms. Im were undergoing intense questioning at the Investigation Section of the Busan Police Department.
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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.
⚫︎ In 1993 a former Korean comfort woman Kil Won-ok told Professor Ahn Byong Jik of Seoul University, "I was sold by my parents."
Yet she testified before UN Special Rapporteur Radhika Coomaraswamy that she was abd*ucted by the Japanese military.
⚫︎ 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."
⚫︎ A former Korean comfort woman Sim Mi-ja who refused to be on Korean Council's payroll said, "The Korean women, who testified before UN Special Rapporteur, lied on behalf of Korean Council. They are swin_dlers"
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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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“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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