Picture of the Day: Protest Against 2015 Comfort Women Agreement
A group of civic activists in front of the foreign ministry in Seoul on Dec. 27, 2017, calls for the scrapping of an agreement made between the South Korean and Japanese governments in 2015 over issues surrounding the Japanese military’s sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War II. Earlier in the day, a foreign ministry task force announced the outcomes of its five-month review, concluding that the accord lacked efforts to listen to victims, euphemistically called “comfort women,” before reaching the deal. (Yonhap)
They should have at least got more money than they did. Just a bad all around deal.
Given the number of room salons, juicy bars, and glass houses in Seoul, one would think the so-called “Comfort Women” would ask the protestors to improve the situation for all women in Korea, not just dredge up bad memories from 70+ years ago…
But maybe they assume modrrn day sex workers enjoy their work?
BMM. How can you compare live grenades to blanks? The comfort women were forced under the gun, today’s sex workers do it of free will. (Excluding the Human Trafficking Rings) Do you have any idea what happened under the Japanese Empire? I think not.
Ole Tanker,
Do you know why women volunteer to be humiliated? Does you really think every room salon girl is there voluntarily?
And the girls on The Hill or in The Ville, are they there voluntarily?
I do not doubt that the Japanese were brutal. The stories of Korean guards at the various POW camps makes one realize it was not just those from the islands who treated other humans with contempt.
And you can bet that many of those in the sex trade in Korea would end up dead or maimed if they tried to quit.
Grenades and blanks my arse. Korean, Russian, Chinese, and Philippine gangs make too much money to allow their merchandise to retire early.
BluMufix,
Now we are comparing State Sanctioned programs with non-state organization criminal activities? The Japanese targeted the Korean people for enslavement for their Empire. Did you know the Japanese took Korean Conscripts as construction workers? http://www.worldwar2facts.org/battle-of-tarawa.html
The men got drafted for a job, some women got drafted for a job too. ISIS targeted non-Muslim womens for their slave sex trade. I’m still waiting for Turkey to acknowledge the Armenian genocide. I don’t think it’s too much to ask the Japanese people to own up to their undeniable actions.