“Many people know former comfort women as victims of wartime or protesters who share their experience as sex slaves. I thought it would be interesting to show a story about what their lives were like in between those two periods,” Park said during a press conference held at CGV Yongsan in Seoul on Wednesday.
“They told me that they want to create a documentary about comfort women. Their initial proposal was something different though,” Park said. “I thought that there are already so many similar great films about comfort women, and told them I wanted to do something different.” “I felt especially attached to her,” Park said. “She seemed fun and charismatic. I was attracted to her character.”“I think she has fulfilled her role as a victim by leaving an important historical record via oral speech,” Park said. “She left an important record, but it is not being spread. So I put a lot of thought into how to make the story relevant to people living today.
The director also added that it was difficult searching for performers who could read Kim’s testimony in his documentary film.
TheKoreaHerald BAE CHUN-HEE said she hated her father who sold her. She said that men who recruited Korean women and operated comfort stations were all Korean, and that Korean women who testified before UN Special Rapporteur lied on behalf of Korean Council.
TheKoreaHerald A former Korean comfort woman SIM MI-JA who refused to be on the activist group, Korean Council payroll said, 'The Korean women, who testified before UN Special Rapporteur, lied on behalf of Korean Council. They are swindlers'
TheKoreaHerald KIL WON-OK, a Comfort Woman testified in 1993 to Prof. Ahn Byong Jik of Seoul University that she was sold by her parents for money. Yet KIL changed her testimony before UN Special Rapporteur that she was abducted by the Japanese military. They all changed their testimonies.
TheKoreaHerald MOON PIL-KI, another Comfort Woman testified that she was recruited by a Korean comfort station owner's agent and taken to Manchuria with four other women. Yet MOON changed her testimony before UN that she was abducted by the Japanese military.
TheKoreaHerald Kim Gun-ja, another comfort woman testified in 1993 to Prof. Ahn Byong Jik of Seoul University that she was sold by her step father. Yet she testified before UN Special Rapporteur Radhika Coomaraswamy that she was abducted by the Japanese military.
TheKoreaHerald KIM SUN-OK, another Comfort Woman testified that she was sold by her parents FOUR TIMES for money. Yet she changed her testimony before UN Special Rapporteur Radhika Coomaraswamy that she was abducted by the Japanese military.
TheKoreaHerald Lee Yong-Soo, a famous Comfort Women activist, misrepresents her age and her testimony has been changing more than 10 times depending upon the audiences. The attached is a record of her lies.
TheKoreaHerald The advisory board of Comfort Women advocacy group is insulting Hong Kong democratic protesters by name-calling them a “riot”. They also deny Korean government’s systematic involvement of the sexual violences against Vietnamese women during Vietnam War.
TheKoreaHerald Here they come in the comments. Three of the online “comfort women” deniers/misinformation spreaders/conspiracy theorists: SemashiA MarkMinhNguyen DKayakuda Who pays them for trolling? Do they all share in the pool of denier crowdfunding via PayPal to Kim Byungheon?
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TheKoreaHerald In South Korea, 1. FALSE ACCUSATION was made 4,151 TIMES as often as in Japan in 2002. 2. PERJURY was committed 671 TIMES as often as in Japan in 2002.
TheKoreaHerald “According to a former law enforcement officer in New York who worked on prostitution and massage parlor cases for 10 years, “There were Korean women who were predators, recruiting other women into the business...they knew where to push the buttons”
TheKoreaHerald Rep. Yoon Mee-hyang, former leader of the advocacy group used the SAME COMFORT WOMEN & stole their, gov't, corp & donors' funds. She is protected by President Moon.
TheKoreaHerald “A Korean man arrested for allegedly selling a 17 y/o girl as prostitute against her will in collusion w/ her parents. The parents earned 320yen & the man earned 120yen.” Source: Chosun Shinbun, May 28, 1930
TheKoreaHerald KIM HAK-SUN, the 1st Comfort Woman testified in 1991 that SHE WAS SOLD BY PARENT as a prostitute in Pyongyang, but she was forced to change her testimony before UN that she was abducted by the Japanese military. Who forced her to change the testimony?
TheKoreaHerald It was Korean parents who sold their daughters to Korean pimps for a contractual obligation in exchange for money. Beneficiaries were parents. The unbroken chain of 1500 years of slave holding culture is the ultimate cause for the violence against women.
TheKoreaHerald Criminal statistics of annexed Korea 1938: Out of 1,709 arrested for illegal trafficking, Korean were 1,699, Japanese were 10. It was Korean themselves who deceived the women IN KOREAN LANGUAGE & were arrested. Source: Office of Governor-General of Korea, Annual Statistics 1938
TheKoreaHerald “Once women are forced into prostitution…Korean pimps manipulate them into incurring debts, so that they will not be able to leave. Women are charged for rent, food, furniture, clothes, & medical expenses; One woman’s debt accrued for 25 years”
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TheKoreaHerald “The Korean comfort women only began to claim that they had been dragooned by the Japanese military after Yoshida published his 1983 book…And Yoshida had fabricated the entire account.”1/
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TheKoreaHerald Hypocrites of Korean people who blame other country while they never admit their own atrocities done to my country. Japanese people already apologized many times, made a significant amount of compensation, but they do nothing to us.
TheKoreaHerald “61 women, who accepted an apology from Japan two decades ago, were vilified as traitors by activist group & denied South Korean government subsidies. One former Comfort Woman, who had not been taken by force, wanted to forgive Japan but could not say so”.
TheKoreaHerald “Yoon Mee-hyang, an activist-turned-lawmaker, was a leading figure in a campaign to raise awareness toward comfort women. But she exploited the country's most-well known advocacy group and victims of Comfort Women.”
TheKoreaHerald “Contrary to common belief, most Korean women were sold by their parents to Korean pimps who owned & operated brothels. The Korean women were not the sex slaves of the Japanese military. Korean society must repudiate victimization, admit its complicity.”
TheKoreaHerald MUN OK-CHU, the former Comfort Woman, who was sent to Kisaeng (prostitution) BY MOTHER even after WW2, left two contradicted testimonies (1992: sold by parent/1993: abducted by Japanese). Absurd if an “abducted, raped but rescued” woman sent to prostitution again BY MOTHER.