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Chris Steele-Perkins - KOREA. Comfort Women. 2006

KOREA. Comfort Women. 2006 - Korea. 2006. Comfort women. Pak Ok-Seon. Born in 1924
She was from a poor family of 8 children.She went with friends to find work in a textile plant in China, but there was made a sex slave in Manturia for four years. She tried to commit suicide a number of times. She escaped when the sex station was bombed. She is still scared of Japanese and has had no compensation. - Chris Steele-Perkins

Korea. 2006. Comfort women. Pak Ok-Seon. Born in 1924
She was from a poor family of 8 children.She went with friends to find work in a textile plant in China, ...

KOREA. Comfort Women. 2006 - Korea. 2006. Comfort women. Yi Okseon. Born 1927
She was abducted from a bar when she was 16 by two men and taken to work building a Japanese airport. When she protested she and was taken to a sex station and made to have sex 40 to 50 times a day. When she complained she was stabbed in the arm and beaten so badly her eyesight and hearing were permanently damaged.
One girl from the same sex station who protested was stabbed to death in front of her and thrown in the street to be eaten by dogs. - Chris Steele-Perkins

Korea. 2006. Comfort women. Yi Okseon. Born 1927
She was abducted from a bar when she was 16 by two men and taken to work building a Japanese airport. When she...

KOREA. Comfort Women. 2006 - Korea. 2006. Comfort women. Park Ok-ryun. Born 1919.
Aged 20 her abusive husband sold her to an employment agency and told she would be washing clothes and caring for wounded soldiers. She was sent to papua New Guinea and discovered she was to be a sex slave.

From 7am to 4pm she had to have sex with private soldiers, from 4pm to 7 pm they were non commissioned officers and from 7pm to 10 officers. In principle the time assigned to a solder was one hour but there were too many to keep that schedule. She would have sex with between 20 to 30 soldiers daily.

She was told she would work in a laundry. Instead, she was taken to a sex station and ordered to have sex with as many as 30 soldiers a day. From seven in the morning until 12, she had to service foot soldiers; from 12 to six the junior officers; and from six till the next morning, the senior officers. - Chris Steele-Perkins

Korea. 2006. Comfort women. Park Ok-ryun. Born 1919.
Aged 20 her abusive husband sold her to an employment agency and told she would be washing clothes and car...

KOREA. Comfort Women. 2006 - Korea. 2006. Comfort women. Kim Ginja. Oldest of three daughters, her father died when she was ten and then her mother died when she was fourteen and was adopted into her aunt's family. Aged seventeen she was made to get a job and was taken by a Korean agent to a

Korea. 2006. Comfort women. Kim Ginja. Oldest of three daughters, her father died when she was ten and then her mother died when she was fourteen and was adopte...

KOREA. Comfort Women. 2006 - Korea. 2006. Comfort women. Kang Ilchul. Born 1928.
She was taken by a military police office saying she was being conscripted for the National Guard. Instead she was taken to a sex station in China where she was raped until her vagina bled. Twice she attempted suicide. She is not interested in financial compensation but wants public acknowledgement by the Japanese. - Chris Steele-Perkins

Korea. 2006. Comfort women. Kang Ilchul. Born 1928.
She was taken by a military police office saying she was being conscripted for the National Guard. Instead ...

Korea. 2006. Comfort women. Kim Soon Ok

Korea. 2006. Comfort women. Hwang Kum Ju

Korea. 2006. Comfort women. Mun Pilgi

KOREA. Comfort Women. 2006 - Korea. 2006. Comfort women. Lee Sun Duk
She was 17 years old and working on a farm harvesting when she was taken by a Japanese soldier. She was put in a room with 15 other girls and then taken to Shanghai and made to work at a sex station. There she was frequently beaten for resisting and this has damaged her eyesight. She had to have sex every day of the year. When she finally came home both her parents had died. - Chris Steele-Perkins

Korea. 2006. Comfort women. Lee Sun Duk
She was 17 years old and working on a farm harvesting when she was taken by a Japanese soldier. She was put in a room w...

KOREA. Comfort Women. 2006 - Korea. 2006. Comfort women. Jang Jum Dol. She was 14 and on the way to do laundry when she was taken by a Japanese man and told she was going to a factory to make money, but she was tied up in a house with an 11 year old girl and then taken with some other girls to Manchuria. She tried to escape and was captured and beaten and kept as at a sex station with a wire fence around it. She had three children there and two of them died, the surviving girl had a weak heart. She had to continue as a sex slave. When she came back to Korea with her daughter after the war she was so poor she had to sleep in the streets. - Chris Steele-Perkins

Korea. 2006. Comfort women. Jang Jum Dol. She was 14 and on the way to do laundry when she was taken by a Japanese man and told she was going to a factory to ma...

KOREA. Comfort Women. 2006 - Korea. 2006. Comfort women. Kil Won Ok.
She was thirteen when she was taken to Beijing by the Japanese to help build a factory. A friend told here there was a place to make a lot of money and they took a train there but they were put into a sex station where they were beaten frequently if they resisted. They also had their feet stamped on as punishment.

Now is the happiest time of her life. - Chris Steele-Perkins

Korea. 2006. Comfort women. Kil Won Ok.
She was thirteen when she was taken to Beijing by the Japanese to help build a factory. A friend told here there was a...

KOREA. Comfort Women. 2006 - Korea. 2006. Comfort women. Kim Soon Ak. Born 1928
She is the eldest child and only daughter of poor farmers. She remembers she was wearing a white top and black skirt when she was taken to work, as she was told, in a thread factory. She was taken on a 4 day journey to Mongolia and made to work in a sex station, aged 17.
On weekends, even when she had a period, she was made to have 20 to 30 soldiers who stood in line outside.

When she came home she learned her father had died of grief over loosing her.

Until the Comfort Women movement started she told no one of her past.

She still wishes she could have worn the wedding veil. - Chris Steele-Perkins

Korea. 2006. Comfort women. Kim Soon Ak. Born 1928
She is the eldest child and only daughter of poor farmers. She remembers she was wearing a white top and bla...

KOREA. Comfort Women. 2006 - KOREA—Lee Yong Soo, born in 1928, came from a poor family. Her mother worked as a nanny, and her father delivered rice. She was 16 when a friend called her out of the house to meet a Japanese man who gave her a dress and leather shoes and promised more if they came and worked for him. There were four other girls, including her friend, with the man, and she was too excited to ask about where they were going. They traveled for several days to the north of Korea to work harvesting radishes. The man's behavior changed, and he beat them if they made mistakes or complained. After a month, they were taken by a Japanese naval ship to Taiwan. The girls were raped repeatedly on the journey, and Lee Yong Soo contracted a sexually transmitted disease. In Taiwan, they were forced to work in a

Take off bravely.
Leaving Shin-jook Crossing over the clouds
There is no one to see me off
Only one crying for me.
Doshiko.
After the war was over, she found her way home, and her mother, believing her dead, was frightened and thought she was a ghost. She feels much better now that she has revealed what happened to her as a sex slave. She never married and lives alone, 2006. - Chris Steele-Perkins">

KOREA—Lee Yong Soo, born in 1928, came from a poor family. Her mother worked as a nanny, and her father delivered rice. She was 16 when a friend called her out ...

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Chris Steele-Perkins - KOREA. Comfort Women. 2006

Korea. 2006. Comfort women. Pak Ok-Seon. Born in 1924She was from a poor family of 8 children.She went with friends to find work in a textile plant in China, ...

Korea. 2006. Comfort women. Yi Okseon. Born 1927She was abducted from a bar when she was 16 by two men and taken to work building a Japanese airport. When she...

Korea. 2006. Comfort women. Park Ok-ryun. Born 1919.Aged 20 her abusive husband sold her to an employment agency and told she would be washing clothes and car...