Relief Women Enforced by Wartime Sex Slavery

Sex slave women, called “Comfort/Relaxation Women”, are separated from their families and find themselves unaware that their lives will change so much. of a different life found it in.

The horrifying life stories of Kim Bok-Dong and Lee Ok-seon, who were forced into sex slavery at an early age. from their own mouth If you’re ready to listen, let’s get started.

They were abducted to become sex slaves when they were only 14 years old.

Kim Bok-Dong and Lee Ok-seon, who were 14 years old in 1926, were living in Korea, which was under the auspices of Japan at that time. The Japanese used the Koreans to give them everything they want was trying to do.

Picking up young boys from their schools “student soldiers” They recruited little girls into their armies, threatening to confiscate their families’ property, and abducted them.

They recounted the traumatic day of their abduction in their own words.

Lee Ok-seon describes the day she was abducted with these words:

“I was doing an errand for my family. A group of men in uniform jumped out of the car. attacked me and dragged me to the car. As the car drove away, I had no idea that I was separated from my parents forever at the age of 14.”

The abduction story of Kim Bok-Dong is as follows:

“They were breaking into houses and taking us by force. If we don’t want to go, to confiscate all their possessions they were threatening us. One night I was taken to the port and put on a ship with about 30 girls.”

They were raped in so-called “relaxation stations”.

These so-called “relaxation stations” were actually hospitals. Japanese soldiers, victims of abuse, girls who want to cover up their ugliness as if they were nurses working in a hospital they were showing.

Girls brought to the hospital for the first time, by the authorities They were welcomed and examined and sent to their rooms. Of course, everyone understood what was going on behind the ajar or open doors.

Even if they were unable to walk, they had to surrender.

lasting for hours upsetting events.some days from 12 noon to 6 pm, sometimes from 8 am to 5 pm.

Rape survivor “comfort women” who are unable to walk, when they want to resist for being punished with beatings they were condemned to submission. At the end of each day, doctors treated the girls’ wounds.

Increasingly repeated rapes, agonizing physical pains, pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases and dreary conditions before wars…

“It is better to die than to live like this,” among themselves. girls who think in suicide attempts existed.

In fact, Kim Bok-Dong, who tried to commit suicide by drinking alcohol with his mother’s money for food, said, “My stomach hurt so much that I’m still digestive problems I live.” says.

During the war, many women did not survive.

Many of the women who were sex slaves, called “relief women”, died at that time. Some exceptions, such as Kim Bok-Dong and Lee Ok-seon, managed to escape. After 8 years of captivity by refugee boat Kim Bok-Dong, who managed to return to his family, did not even know how long he stayed there.

The family, who thought their daughter went to work, traumatic facts did not learn for many years. However, after a long time, when his mother pressured him to marry, he was able to confess all that had happened.

Nothing can heal the wounds of the years lived, but…

Of course, the lives of these women, who spent their years living through perhaps one of the most terrifying experiences in the world, were never the same again. The only thing Kim Bok-Dong still wants is Japan’s formal and sincere an apology. Kim ends her interview with a few impressive sentences:

“If I got compensation, I would use it for students who don’t have the condition. because I years I should have been a student I spent it being sex slavery.”