Tag: comfort women

Fraud Plagued Comfort Women Home in Seoul to Be Closed

| July 6, 2020

It appears the Korean left will deal with the comfort women scandal by attempting to erase any memory of it instead of holding those accountable for allowing the fraud to happen:

A shelter for Korean victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery during the World War II in Mapo District, Seoul. Korea Times file

A shelter for surviving victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery is set to be closed after the last resident recently left the facility, the operator said Saturday.

Gil Won-ok, 92, left the shelter June 11 to stay at a church operated by her 61-year-old stepson, priest Hwang Sun-hee, according to the Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance (Korea Council), the nongovernmental organization working for South Korea’s “comfort women,” that is currently mired in an alleged embezzlement scandal

The Korea Council said it has yet to decide when to close the shelter in Mapo District, western Seoul, and return it to the Myungsung Church, which owns the property.

The planned shutdown comes as the head of the shelter was found dead at her apartment in Paju, north of Seoul, early last month. 

Korea Times via a reader tip

You can read more at the link.

Yoon Mee-hyang Claims She Didn’t Know You Could Not Put Public Donations in Your Personal Bank Account

| June 1, 2020

Here is the latest on the comfort woman fraud case involving left wing national assembly member Yoon Mee-hyang:

Yoon Mee-hyang, a lawmaker of the ruling Democratic Party who until recently headed an advocacy group for victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery, holds a press conference at the National Assembly in Yeouido, western Seoul, on Friday. [YONHAP]
Yoon Mee-hyang, a lawmaker of the ruling Democratic Party who until recently headed an advocacy group for victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery, holds a press conference at the National Assembly in Yeouido, western Seoul, on Friday. [YONHAP]

During the Friday press conference, Yoon read from a prepared statement before taking questions from the press, and rejected almost all accusations leveled against her. She also made it clear that she has no intention of giving up her seat. Yoon said she could not discuss all the “small details” because “a questioning by the prosecution is imminent,” referring to an ongoing criminal probe into the Korean Council.    

But while denying any misappropriation of funds, Yoon apologized for using her personal bank account to collect public donations, saying she had been “naïve to think it is okay as long as there was no problem about financial [transparency].”   

She said that after utilizing the donations, she transferred leftover funds to the Korean Council account, and added, “I have never used donations collected in my account for personal use.”  

Yoon said she has raised a total of 280 million won ($227,000) that was deposited into her personal bank account. She said she spent 230 million won of the total on projects related to comfort women victims that were outside the purview of the Korean Council, with the remainder used by the Korean Council. She added that she plans to disclose all of the details to the prosecution. 

Joong Ang Ilbo

You can read much more at the link, but this may just be the tip of the iceberg involving this fraud. Yoon’s husband is noted convicted North Korean spy and fraudster himself.

Tweet of the Day: Comfort Woman Fraud Has Ties to North Korean Spy

| May 27, 2020

Picture of the Day: Comfort Women Advocacy Group Raided

| May 22, 2020
Reporters cover raid of wartime sex slave advocacy group
Reporters cover raid of wartime sex slave advocacy group
Reporters wait outside the main office of the Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance for the Issue of Military Sexual Slavery, which is under investigation for accounting irregularities, in Seoul on May 20, 2020. The state prosecutors office received a search and seizure warrant from a court to check records of the wartime sex slave advocacy group. (Yonhap) 

Picture of the Day: Masked Comfort Woman Statue

| March 13, 2020
Masked Statue of Peace
Masked Statue of PeaceA facial mask is affixed on a Statue of Peace, which symbolizes Korean victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery, in the southeastern city of Daegu, the epicenter of coronavirus in South Korea, on March 11, 2020. (Yonhap) 

Picture of the Day: Comfort Woman Statue on Display in Japan

| October 10, 2019
Comfort woman statue
Comfort woman statueA statue depicting a comfort woman went back on display at the Aichi Triennale 2019 in Nagoya on Oct. 8, 2019, after the organizer of the international art festival pulled the work from being shown due to protests by right-wing activists in early August. The Aichi Arts Center allowed 60 people to see the exhibit representing victims of Japan’s World War II-era sexual slavery, on the first day of it being put back on display, despite a thousand people expressing a wish to see the statue. The file photo was taken on Aug. 4. (Yonhap) 

Tweet of the Day: ROK Government Denied Comfort Women Compensation from Japanese Fund

| July 8, 2019

Moon Administration Will Reportedly Scrap Comfort Women Agreement with Japan

| November 21, 2018

It looks like the Moon administration is about to scrap an agreement made with the Japanese to settle the comfort women issue:

The Seoul office of the Reconciliation and Healing Foundation (Yonhap)

The South Korean government is expected to announce a decision this week to dismantle a controversial foundation related to Japan’s wartime sexual enslavement of Korean women, an official said Tuesday.

The planned shutdown of the Reconciliation and Healing Foundation, funded by Japan, is seen as Seoul’s move to effectively discard a 2015 accord between the neighboring countries on the “comfort women” issue.

Many Korean women were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II. Some historians put the number at as many as 200,000. Korea was under Japan’s brutal colonization from 1910-45.

In late 2015, the then-Park Geun-hye administration signed the agreement to resolve the history issue. They launched the foundation, intended to help the victims and their families, the following year. Japan offered 1 billion yen (US$8.9 million).  [Yonhap]

You can read more at the link, but as usual the South Korean is more than willing to scrap agreements and demonize the Japanese who have been nothing but great neighbors to the ROK since Imperial Japan’s destruction during World War II.

Meanwhile the Korean left continues to suck up to the Kim regime in North Korea that nearly destroyed the ROK during the Korean War and has launched numerous deadly attacks and provocations since then.

Picture of the Day: Comfort Women Protest

| October 11, 2018

Against Japan's wartime sexual slavery

Participants call for Japan to apologize for its wartime sexual slavery at a weekly rally in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Oct. 10, 2018. Some 200,000 women, mostly Koreans, are estimated to have been forced to serve the Japanese army in front-line brothels during World War II. They are euphemistically called “comfort women.” (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Statue Day

| August 17, 2018

National Day for Japan's wartime sexual slavery victims

This image provided by Seo Kyoung-duk, professor of Sungshin Women’s University, on Aug. 14, 2018, promotes a video clip on YouTube (https://youtu.be/5isUH0g_YEU) that he made to criticize Japan for its attempts to distort the history of its wartime sexual slavery. South Korea has designated Aug. 14 as national day for the former sex slaves, also known as comfort women. (Yonhap)