Updated on Feb 08, 2016
There were comfort women who worked for Imperial Japanese Military during WW2, but they were camp-following prostitutes who earned high salary in the exchange of working near the battle field. Most of them from Taiwan, Korea and Japan were victims of human trafficking.
There were comfort women who worked for Imperial Japanese Military during WW2, but they were camp-following prostitutes who earned high salary in the exchange of working near the battle field. Most of them from Taiwan, Korea and Japan were victims of human trafficking.
Who gathered comfort women in
Korean Peninsula? South Korean
female scholar, Park Yu-ha (朴裕河) who is a professor of Sejong
University, Seoul, described in
her book entitled “帝国の慰安婦 (Comfort women of the Empire)”
that Korean parents sold their daughter for the poverty and Korean private
brokers gathered girls. She wrote: There is
no evidence that the Japanese government was officially involved in, and
therefore legally responsible for, coercing Korean women.
Professor Park also wrote: the women
from the Japanese colonies of Korea and Taiwan were also treated as citizens of
the empire and were expected to consider their service patriotic. They forged a
“comradelike relationship” with the Japanese soldiers and sometimes fell in
love with them, she wrote. She cited cases where Japanese soldiers took loving
care of sick women and even returned those who did not want to become
prostitutes.
Professor Park was sued for the reason of defaming the former comfort women in South Korea. An article published on Dec 18, 2015 on The New York Times “Disputing Korean Narrative on ‘Comfort Women,’ a ProfessorDraws Fierce Backlash” described about the book by Prof. Park and its related current topics including the lawsuit. There was a comment from a Korean to the NYT article. Here is the copy.
Hyung-Sung Kim
"As a history student, I
interviewed dozens of Koreans who were born in the 1920’s and 1930’s including
my grandparents about comfort women. What they witnessed was Korean fathers
selling their daughters, Korean comfort station owners deceiving Korean women.
They never witnessed Japanese military coercing any Korean women.
Many of the Korean comfort
women's fathers had debts and sold their daughters. The comfort station owners
paid off their debts in advance, and depending on the amount of the debt, the
woman's contract length was determined. Korean women were not allowed to leave
until their debts were paid off. Any coercion, violence or confinement was
exercised by the Korean owners. So if one wants to use the term "sex
slaves" to describe former Korean comfort women, they were the sex slaves
of Korean comfort station owners. They were not the sex slaves of the Japanese
military. A diary written by a Korean comfort station worker discovered in 2013
confirms that fact.
I don't exonerate the Japanese
military because its invasion into China and Southeast Asia did create the
demand for comfort women. But the Korean narrative "The Japanese military
showed up at the doors and abducted young Korean women" just didn't
happen. The Korean comfort station owners capitalized on the demand, recruited
Korean women, operated comfort stations and made lots of money. Japan has
apologized for its part. South Korea should admit its complicity and stop
demanding Japan for more apologies."
• 217 Recommend (as of 8 pm on Dec
20, 2015)
In recent Japan-bashing activities
in the US such as building comfort women statue/memorial and/or describing distorted history of comfort women
issue in high school history textbooks, the anti-Japan
activists always say that comfort women should be memorized for protecting women’s rights.
It would be highly hypocritical
statement in order to hide the true purpose of Japan-bashing as long as only
the comfort women issue is focused as an example of women’s rights issue.
Mistreatment of women during war has been happening since the history of human beings. Therefore, many nations'
militaries historically have used indentured prostitutes, and it is unfair to target just
Japan. When only one group is selectively targeted, it is "profiling"
and, thus, wrong. Below are examples that is hard to stare at
1, Massive rape of French women by GIs during WW2
2, Japanese comfort women for GIs
3, Total one million Korean comfort women for GIs
4, Massive rape and massacre of Vietnamese Women by South Korean Soldiers
5, Filipinos are forced into prostitution in South Korea_ The modern issue
6, Korean prostitutes and human trafficking in the US_ The modern issue
3, Total one million Korean comfort women for GIs
4, Massive rape and massacre of Vietnamese Women by South Korean Soldiers
5, Filipinos are forced into prostitution in South Korea_ The modern issue
6, Korean prostitutes and human trafficking in the US_ The modern issue
1, Massive rape of Frence women by the US soldiers
The Daily Mail,
2, Japanese comfort women for the US soldiers
Japanese comfort women who served for the US soldiers during the US-occupation of Japan after WW2. Comfort stations called Recreationa l Amusement Association (RAA) was built at the request from General Headquarters of the Allied Powers (GHQ, aka., the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers) in many places of Japan. Because massive rape of Japanese women by GIs happened- During ONLY 10 days of the initial occupation, 1,336 cases of rape by the US soldiers occurred in only Kanagawa Prefecture.
Japanese comfort women who served for the US soldiers during the US-occupation of Japan after WW2. Comfort stations called Recreationa l Amusement Association (RAA) was built at the request from General Headquarters of the Allied Powers (GHQ, aka., the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers) in many places of Japan. Because massive rape of Japanese women by GIs happened- During ONLY 10 days of the initial occupation, 1,336 cases of rape by the US soldiers occurred in only Kanagawa Prefecture.
To protect Japanese women,
brothels called Recreation and Amusement Association (RAA) for the US soldiers
were immediately built in 1945 at the request from General Headquarters of the
Allied Powers (GHQ, aka., the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers) in many
places of Japan.
These officially sponsored
brothels were closed in January 1946 when the Occupation authorities banned all
"public" prostitution while declaring that it was undemocratic and
violated the human rights of the women involved. However, rape increased after the closure of the brothels,
40 cases of rape daily while the RAA was in operation, and then rose to an
average of 330 a day after it was terminated.
en.wiki
Terese Svoboda, The Asia-Pacific
Journal, Vol 21-1-09, May 23, 2009.
3, Total one million Korean women
served for the US soldiers since Korean War to present. Park Chung-hee, who ruled South Korea during the 1960s and
1970s, and the father of incumbent president Park Geun-hye, encouraged the sex
industry in order to generate revenue, particularly from the U.S. military.
The New York Times, January 7,
2009,
The Daily Mail, November 28,
2014,
A group of former prostitutes in
South Korea have accused some of their country’s former leaders of a different
kind of abuse: encouraging them to have sex with the American soldiers who
protected South Korea from North Korea, taking a direct hand in the sex trade
from the 1960s through the 1980s.
It is a big irony that NYT favoring anti-Japan campaign published this
article previously, but now accusing only Japan based on Koreans’ fabricated
stories.
Military
base: More than 120 women who used to work as prostitutes near a US military
base in Uijeongbu City, South Korea, are seeking compensation from the Korean
government. Above, Camp Stanley, east of the city
Poverty-stricken: The former prostitutes, who are aging and poor, claim their county's authorities actively facilitated their work in a bid to keep American forces happy. Above, former prostitute Cho Myung-ja, 76
Korean JoonGang Daily, Oct 30,
2008
During the Korean War, Ms. Cheon
Chang-suk began working as a yangbuin, a term coined by locals for Korean
bargirls and sex workers at major American camptowns, or gijichon in
Korean. Gijichon is same as brothels
to provide sexual services for the US soldiers and sprang up across the Korea
around 1945 when the US troops arrived.
Camptown prostitution and related
businesses on the Korean Peninsula contributed to nearly 25 percent of the
Korean GNP, according to Katharine Moon, a professor of political science at
Wellesley College, in a 2002 study.
According to Cheon, the Korean
government supported the camptown brothels, hoping the industry would boost
regional economies. In fact,
recent studies here by scholars and nongovernmental agencies have suggested
that the Korean government helped build and maintain the brothels after the
Korean War, supporting the claims of women like Cheon.
4, Massive rape and massacre by
South Korean Soldiers during Vietnam war.
During Vietnamese war, South Korean’s soldier raped 200,000 Vietnamese women/girls. They even massacred those women after the rape. In present days, the Half-breed called Lai Dai Han between Korean soldiers and Vietnamese women are at least 5,000 and at most 30,000 and are discriminated in Vietnamese society.
During Vietnamese war, South Korean’s soldier raped 200,000 Vietnamese women/girls. They even massacred those women after the rape. In present days, the Half-breed called Lai Dai Han between Korean soldiers and Vietnamese women are at least 5,000 and at most 30,000 and are discriminated in Vietnamese society.
http://vietnamvoices.org/
Change.org Petition demanding Apology for
the Systemic Rape of Vietnamese Women During the Vietnam War
CNN iReport, November 14, 2014
Binh Tai Massacre (This link includes others
atrocities)
en.wiki
NewsWeek _ South Korea's Vietnam
By Ron Moreau 4/9/2000
5, Filipinos are forced into prostitution in South Korea.
Philippine Embassy has 'watchlist' of suspect bars in South Korea
STARS and STRIPES, Sep 29, 2009
Philippine Embassy officials in
South Korea have established a “watch list” of bars where they believe
Filipinas are forced into prostitution or otherwise exploited and are
considering sharing it with the U.S. military. Patrons at juicy bars are expected to buy expensive juice
drinks for the female employees in exchange for their conversation and company,
but prostitution and human trafficking have been recurring problems at many of
the bars.
The Filipinas are brought to
Korea on entertainer visas, ostensibly as singers, but typically the women don’t
learn until they arrive that their primary job is not to sing but to generate
juice revenue. And at some bars,
if the women don’t earn enough in juice sales to meet quotas, they are
pressured to have sex with patrons — often U.S. servicemen — for a price.
Prior to this article, Stars and
Stripes also reported that, despite the military’s expressed zero tolerance for
human trafficking, prostitution continues to be affiliated with many of the
juicy bars that cluster in seedy entertainment districts near U.S. military
bases across South Korea.
Human trafficking for
prostitution is not an issue of half century ago, but the present-day issue in
South Korea.
Stars and Stripes: September 1, 2013
The vast majority of juicy girls employed at
base-area bars in South Korea are Filipino, though there is a small percentage
of Koreans and those of other nationalities working as the controversial
hostesses who are brought here illegally and often linked to prostitution.
6, Korean prostitutes and human trafficking in the US
South Korea is the biggest exporter of prostitute. South Korean prostitutes occupies 23.5% of all prostitutes who were arrested in the US, which is the biggest proportion (Thai [11.7%] and Peru [10%] are the top 2 and top 3, respectively). These prostitutes are victims of human trafficking by Korean-based prostitution industry in the United States.
South Korea is the biggest exporter of prostitute. South Korean prostitutes occupies 23.5% of all prostitutes who were arrested in the US, which is the biggest proportion (Thai [11.7%] and Peru [10%] are the top 2 and top 3, respectively). These prostitutes are victims of human trafficking by Korean-based prostitution industry in the United States.
The Voices of NY Sep 27, 2011
Massive amount of Korean women
visit the US for prostitution
Funny Malaysia Dec 7, 2014
In South Korea: 110 women out of 10,000 are sex
workers, which is the top 2 of the world.
Despite legal sanctions and police crackdowns, prostitution continues to
flourish in South Korea, while sex workers continue to actively resist the
state’s activity.
An Analysis of Korean Women in
the U.S. Commercial Sex Industry
Timothy C. Lim, Ph.D.
Department of Political Science
California State University, Los
Angeles
Why are there so many Korean
women—trafficked or smuggled, voluntary or coerced—in the American sex
industry? We will return to this question, but first it is useful to take a
look at the Korean-based prostitution and smuggling network in the United
States.
The widespread distribution of
Korean- and other Asian-run prostitution enterprises—combined with heavy
reliance on unauthorized immigrant women who, after all, must be transported
thousands of miles and directed through multiple borders and checkpoints, then
delivered to a prearranged location—suggests a relatively organized international
and domestic network(s) of smugglers and transporters. While our research was not specifically
designed to uncover the details of such networks, it is fairly evident that
they play a central, even essential, role in the Korean-based prostitution industry
in the United States.
International Business Times: 04/29/13
The South Korean government’s Ministry for
Gender Equality estimates that about 500,000 women work in the national sex
industry, though, according to the Korean Feminist Association, the actual
number may exceed 1 million. If that estimate is closer to the truth, it would
mean that 1 out of every 25 women in the country is selling her body for sex --
despite the passage of tough anti-sex-trafficking legislation in recent years.
(For women between the ages of 15 and 29, up to one-fifth have worked in the
sex industry at one time or another, according to estimates.)
Al-Jazeera reported that some 200,000 South
Korean youths run away from home annually, with many of them descending into
the sex trade, according to a report by Seoul’s municipal government. A
separate survey suggested that half of female runaways become prostitutes.
YouTube videos to watch:
Comfort Women : Do you hear their cry? - YouTube
This video show you how terribly
South Korean women have been treated since 1950s to present to satisfy sex
demand for the U.S. military in South Korea.
Interviewed Korean comfort women
for the U.S. military. True roots
of Korean-Americans in the U.S.
Lai Dai Han _ What happend in the Vietnam War
Lai Dai Han _ What happend in the Vietnam War
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