A South Korean professor who challenged the consensus view of Japan’s wartime sex slaves was convicted of defaming the victims on Friday, after a Seoul appeals court overturned an earlier acquittal. Park Yu-Ha, of Sejong University in the South Korean capital, was found guilty of defamation for questioning…
A South Korean professor who challenged the consensus view of Japan’s wartime sex slaves was convicted of defaming the victims on Friday, after a Seoul appeals court overturned an earlier acquittal.
Park Yu-Ha, of Sejong University in the South Korean capital, was found guilty of defamation for questioning the popular narrative that all so-called «comfort women» were dragged from their homes by Japanese soldiers during World War II.
In her 2013 book «The Comfort Women of the Empire», she suggested the reality was more complex, with some women volunteering — though without necessarily knowing what their eventual fate would be. Many were told that they would get factory jobs.
