Korean Comfort Women Issue Explained by Cartoon

A special exhibition on ‘comfort women‘- Korean girls forced to work as sex slaves for Japanese army during the World War 2 era- was featured at one of the leading cartoon festivals in France. It made several headlines as the Japanese government tried to block it, but failed. Korean net users have shared an English translation of Park Gun-woong's cartoon ‘Tattoo- A Story of a Comfort Woman’. (The cartoon- which is based on a true story- depicts violent assault, torture and rape. Viewer discretion is strongly advised) 

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  • shimose

    Many questions why Japan was so quiet and even sent a huge amount of appology and annoucement ? This is because of Japanese culture. Generally Japanese people appologize even they make just one mistake out of 100 issues.
    But Korean people deny all their fault when they make a mistake. Furthermore they try to do their best to make it right. Their proverb says “When you lie 100 times, everything become true”.
    This is what Korea does now.

  • shimose

    Newspaper advertisements recruiting comfort women appeared in the Keijo Nippo and Mainichi Shinpo, the large Korean daily papers during that era, stating that remuneration was 300 yen per month, and that advances of up to 3,000 yen might be granted. The monthly pay of a Japanese Army private at the time was 7.5 yen, and a sergeant made 30 yen.

  • shimose

    The police officers were Korean

    During the annexation of Korea by Japan, all the mayors of the villages in Korea were Korean, and most of the police officers were Korean.
    The South Koreans insist that 200,000 women were abducted by the Japanese troops from villages.
    To abduct such a huge number of women would not have been easy.
    If Japanese troops had abducted the women from the villages, where were all the village mayors and policemen? Why didn’t the Korean people do anything to guard and help the women? Why didn’t they do anything when their people, and especially their women, were taken away by the Japanese troops? Why weren’t there anti-Japan movements?

  • shimose

    Dear reporters from CNN and other US media,

    The Japanese government dealt with inhumane crimes against women

    The Korean police, then under Japanese control, was ordered to arrest procurers who coerced women into serving as comfort women.
    The article concludes by saying that when the police arrested the procurers, there would be full disclosure of the methods used by malicious brokers; for instance, cajoling women into becoming prostitutes by promising extraordinarily high wages.
    As the article clearly demonstrates, the Japanese government dealt severely with inhumane crimes against women, and the military neither kidnapped nor abducted women.

    PLEASE BE REALIZED OF KOREA’S CRIMINAL NEGATIVE CAMPAIGN AGAINST JAPAN.

  • shimose

    B.T.W.

    Korea is the only country that has sent “conglatulation of Tsunami disaster”.

  • shimose

    My big question is, why a big media like CNN and NYT are easily cheated by this Korean’s fake story. If old prostitutes say, is that all true? No. There have to be de evidences that proves their voices. In the past, after investigation, there are tons of those voices were proved that there were no evidences or simply lies.
    Neverthless, what Japanese people were surprised was that Korea kept lobby activity in politics, and extended a fake demand against Japan. Japanese people are too concervetive for unexpected demand. Therefore, the position of Japan was forced back unfairly even though Japan had so many things to inform to the world.
    Be noted that essentially South Korea is the same as North Korea.

  • shimose

    Koreans abuse dogs and cats, and eat them.
    Check the title in YouTube. >> Its a fact!! Koreans eat dogs and cats

    In some area in China, they even eat kidnapped human infant because they believe this makes their lifetime longer.
    Japan consider all the above are insane. But they believe it is global standard just like threatning with fake story.
    Japan is now sick and tired with enormous unreasonable threat from Korea and China. They want to attack and invade territory of Japan little by little as well as neglecting the reputation of Japan.
    It is said that China is supporting this comfort women protest (actually they were applied prostitutes !!!) because they want to split the relationship between US and Japan

  • shimose

    People, do not get wrong with fake comfort women issue. It is simply a huge anti-Japan negative campaign.
    I have tons of documents and films that all of you (except for Korean people who never want to listen), but movie link are deleted in this site. I can simply type what the truth is.

  • How_delightful

    Would the Koreans like some old Japanese men to make a book of jokes about raping Korean women?

  • Refresh

    The testimony which was used as a source for this cartoon is taken from a 1996 UN report, which you can read here: http://www.awf.or.jp/pdf/h0004.pdf

    The former comfort women is called Ok-sun Jung / Chong Ok Sun.

    Note that she was interviewed in Pyongyang, i.e. she is a North Korean woman, not a South Korean. She was presumably put in touch with the UN rapporteur by the North Korean government. Her testimony is far more gruesome than any of the others.

    The most charitable interpretation is that the cartoonist has chosen an unusually brutal testimony, thereby giving a distorted picture of the comfort women issue.

    Another interpretation is that he is merely regurgitating North Korean anti-Japanese propaganda.

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