If you read these papers, you can see how ridiculous the claims of the leftist camp are.
2022/3/2
Women's Lives in Korea under Japanese rule
The theme of "Recognizing the History Before and After Liberation," Volume 1, Part 2 (2006), is "Women's Life Under the Colony."
Professor Takeshi Fujinaga of Osaka Sangyo University, Professor Choi Kyung-hee of the University of Chicago, and Professor Soh Chung-Hee of San Francisco State University are included.
If you read these papers, you can see how ridiculous the claims of the leftist camp are.
If you look at the materials cited in the article, you will see that the Japanese research is in-depth, while the Korean research is sloppy.
It shows how Korean scholars have neglected research in this field and how the Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance has been making emotional claims lacking objectivity, which is very embarrassing for foreign researchers.
The last decade of colonial rule (1935-1945) was like the Industrial Revolution in Korea.
As peasants left the land, a working class emerged, population mobility increased, and urban society diffused at once, the yearning for the so-called new woman spread among women.
In 1917, Lee Kwang-soo's novel "Mujo" was serialized in newspapers and became a popular book of the new civilization.
This novel depicted the love lives of young men and women in an era when new Western civilizations were imported, the spread of open-mindedness, and the birth of modern boys and girls.
In 1935, Sim Hun's "The Evergreen Tree" was published.
It was an enlightening book that opened up the old-fashioned rural society, where the flow of time had stopped.
Comfort women are a product of this blossoming era.
According to one survey of 190 comfort women, 186 had become comfort women between 1937 and 1944, a de-ruralization period.
These girls, who ran away from home at the height of a gold rush for the cities, became easy prey for traffickers.
In addition, a survey of 181 comfort women revealed that more than a quarter of them earned a living by working independently from their homes as helpers, factory workers, cafeterias, and Okiya servers before becoming comfort women.
It turned out that about 60% of them were transferred to Manchuria, Taiwan, and China and became comfort women.
In some of these cases, they ran away from home due to hardships, while in others, they were trying to escape domestic violence from their parents and siblings.
Such a young girl was trapped in a trafficking group.
She relied on incomplete information from her hearing. She swelled her breasts to her expectations, jumping out into society, but while wandering in the rough seas of the world, she was sacrificed by a trafficking group.
It turned out that such a thing was the beginning of becoming a comfort woman.
The trafficking group's minions at that time were mainly Koreans, and there were many Koreans who ran military comfort stations.
There were two routes to becoming a comfort woman: "home → labor market → comfort station" and "home → comfort station."
The intermediaries in charge of these two routes were human trafficking groups.
It provided an environment where they could be active behind the scenes、family violence and abuse against their daughter、and the ignorant male-dominated culture that tries to suppress the longing for learning.
In such a situation, advertisements for comfort women were frequent at the time.
I am sure that many women were not taken by force but went on their own after seeing the advertisements inviting applicants, and I am also sure that their poor fathers sold many comfort women.
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