During World War II, thousands of South Korean girls under the age of 16 were kidnapped and raped by the Japanese military. The Japanese soldiers sexually harassed and physically punished these girls if they did not follow their orders. As a matter of fact, a handful of these comfort women could not bear any children after being infected with syphilis. These wartime sex slaves survivors still live with traumatic experiences and are currently demanding a sincere apology from the Japanese government. The comfort women issue is still left intact with South Koreans, and this has caused a number of political tensions between South Korea and Japan. There are currently 37 South Korean comfort women who are fighting nonstop to accommodate their tragic experiences while they unwillingly spent their adolescent years in Japan. The following account is from Oksun Lee, a 90-year-old survivor of the traumatic Japanese sex slave incident.
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"When I was 15 years old, two men kidnapped me on the street. The bulky men came from behind, caught my wrist and took me away. I resisted, but they gagged my mouth and told me to shut up…”
...At first, my job there was to clean weeds, sweep the yard, and do other kinds of tasks during the day. Suddenly, one day, soldiers came in and raped us like animals in front of their colleagues. They raped us all together in one room. At that time, all I wanted was to die. Whenever I disobeyed, not listening to them or not receiving soldiers for sex, I was beaten. The owners of the establishments … brought military police to punish us.