The Korean Comfort Women

Around 1937, young Korean girls and women began to disappear following Korean and Japanese “job” recruiters. Mostly aged 12-19 and from the poorest families in rural areas, these first comfort women provided sex to 20-30 Japanese soldiers daily, with promised (but mostly unrealized) compensation.
Author and Korean scholar Maija Devine joined us for a look at the stories and little-known suffering of women not often counted among WWII’s victims.
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