Some testimonies, historical photos, and other resources about comfort women

The following link goes to the e-Museum for the victims of Japanese military sexual slavery.

http://www.hermuseum.go.kr/eng/en_index.asp

It provides some precious testimonies including late Hak-soon Kim’s historic confession in the year of 1991. It was the first confession for ‘coming out of the closet’ that she was a comfort women in Korea. And it definitely exploded the anti-Japanese mass protests and concentrated people’s awareness on this issue in Korea (in combination of some political troubles). The following figure presents the newspaper coverage of comfort women issue in Korea.

(Compilation Source: the Kyunghyang Daily, 1960-2010)

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When you visit this homepage, instead of Firefox, Explorer or Google Chrome is more recommended to use videoclips and some photos. Unfortunately, almost all videoclips do not have English subtitle.

Hyun Woo Kim