Comfort women :Korean comfort women during Korean war

I didn't know Korean institutes had admitted in effect that Korea had exactly same comfort station system as Japanse system during Japanese rule.
JoongAngDaily/Japanese 2002.02.24 Tokyo 東京＝呉デ泳（オ・デヨン)魚拓

A professor insisted that Korea also had military brothels during Korean war.
Asahi shimbun reported that there was a comfort women system during Korean War similar to Japanese one under Japanese troop.
Asahi reported that Kim kiok(金貴玉), a visiting professor at Kyonam(慶南) university in Korea lectured to this effect on 23rd at the symposium of Doushiha university in Kyoto Japan.
The professor Kim has made it clear that she comfirmed the testimonies to the effect
that (soldiers) used the comfort stations, and (women) were abducted for the brothels.
It is als reported that in the official record, 後方戦史(the war history of the rear troop) , "the stable comfort station" is mentioned and 89 comfort women served "comfort acts" 245600 times at four comfort stations in 1956 alone.
A person concerned in the institutes of Defence Forces Editing (国防軍事編纂研究所) said the troop provided the place under the agreement with women, the payment for comfort acts was distributed from the budget for running military. but it is a different from Japanese system in that Japanese forcibly mobilized civilians for the brothels, violation human right.

via Ken/occidentalism

And it is not true that Japanese systematically abducted women, though in some cases in Indonesia , there were cases where military was involved in forcing women for the brothels against policy.

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「韓国戦争中にも軍慰安婦存在」韓国教授が主張

日本軍の慰安婦制度を真似た慰安婦制度が、韓国戦争当時、韓国軍にもあったという主張が提起されたと朝日新聞が２４日報道した。

韓国の慶南（キョンナム）大学の客員教授の金貴玉（キム・キオック、４０）氏は、２３日京都の立命館大学で開かれた国際シンポジウムでこのように発表したと同新聞は伝えた。

金教授は「１９９６年以後、５年間『直接慰安所を利用したことがある』、『軍にら致され、慰安婦になった』など男女８人の証言を聴取した」と明らかにした。

金教授はまた「韓国陸軍本部が１９５６年編さんした公文書『後方戦史』に『固定式慰安所－特殊慰安隊』と記録された部分を発見し、これには４カ所で８９人の慰安婦が１９５２年に限って２０万４５６０回の慰安活動をしたという統計資料が添付されていた」と同新聞は付け加えた。

一方、国防軍事編纂研究所の関係者は『当時、軍は売春婦と合意の下で場所を提供した。また慰安行為の対価は部隊運営費から支給されたと聞いている」とし「しかし、日本の植民地時代に日本軍が人権を無視し、一般庶民を強制に連れてきて運営した従軍慰安所とは違う」と説明している。

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