<W commentary> Professor Yoon Mee-hwa of the comfort women movement seeking court testimony = Recording of a university lecture indicted by the Korean prosecution (2)
<W commentary> Professor Yoon Mee-hwa of the comfort women movement seeking court testimony = Recording of a university lecture indicted by the Korean prosecution (2)
A former professor, Seok-Choon Lew, who was charged with the Korean prosecutor's office for saying "comfort women are prostitutes" during a lecture at a prestigious university. He is former comfort women representative Lee Yong-soo, Yoon Mee-hwan who has become a member of the Diet in the comfort women movement, and Lee Young-hoon, the representative author of the best-selling "Anti-Japan Tribalism" applied for witnesses such as Professor of Seoul University and Professor Tsutomu Nishioka, who is famous as a Japanese comfort women researcher.

On September 21, 2019, Professor Lew gave a lecture on the major subject "Developmental Sociology" in front of about 50 students at Yonsei University in Seoul, and set up a question-and-answer session. The lecture, which lasted about 63 minutes, was recorded and the transcript was released. Continuing from the previous article, Literal Translation.

● Female student C: "I've been talking about it all the time, but what I was talking about in this part is... It's a crime led by the state, so this should clarify the responsibility, even though it was led by Japan…"

● Professor Lew: “Now, what Lee Young-hoon is talking about (in his book "Anti-Japan Tribalism") is that (the recruitment of comfort women) was done by the private sector and left unattended by the nation. It's a historical fact. It is said that it was not led by the Japanese nation or the Japanese army. Now, however, do you think that way (the theory of forced entrainment and the theory of sex slavery are true)? I'm saying that it's wrong."

● Professor Lew: "(Students) will have a 'mental breakdown'. What I believed in until now was a mistake right. That person would have a mental breakdown, noticing that they were wrong, but that's wrong. However, you would have thought that "the Japanese nation led the prostitution by the Japanese army."
I'm talking about "it's different"

● Professor Lew: "Now, Lee Young-hoon, also said that many people will" enter prostitution (in the industry) now", "100% of the people said, "I actively prostitute. Isn't it? No. I'm attracted to the suspicion and hesitation of prostitution, even with this, little by little. That's why prostitution is possible. The process (also for comfort women) I think it was the same."

● Male student D: "As Mr. Lee Young-hoon said, 'The content of the first testimony, the content of the first testimony of the former comfort women's grandmothers and the content of the current and recent testimony are different now." You said that Lee Young-hoon's "anti-Japan tribalism was mentioned". The professor said, "I trust it more than other claims." This content has not changed, there are many testimonies of dozens of people."

● Male student D: "There is a testimony of the comfort women victims of the former Japanese army in overseas countries, not just in Japan. If this is one testimony, it can be said that the credibility is reduced. I have a different idea about the credibility of the testimony of many people from different nations in different regions. What are your thoughts on this? (Former comfort) There is a problem with the authenticity of the testimony of the women's). "

● Professor Lew: "The story that they are saying is different from what they said 10 years ago, 20 years ago, and 30 years ago," and it is organized in Lee Young-hoon's book."

● Male student D: "Yes, I think it may be the case now that the testimony (of the former comfort women) has changed, and the credibility is reduced, but there are many testimonies. Out of the people ... "

● Professor Ryu: "That's why the so-called" Yoon Mee-hwan "(the predecessor of the comfort women movement group" Justice Ren "represented by Representative Yoon Mee-hyang) comes in and gathers all the grandmothers in the same place. I'll educate you. And I made him speak the same thing. Without the Korean Council for Justice, they would have lived their lives apart from each other. You wouldn't have made public that you lived that life in the past. "

● Professor Lew: "Now it's a kind of turmoil. You'll be talking about your life in the past and making noise on TV. In the old days, the Japanese Empire (the rule of the Japanese Empire) was over. Immediately after that, they were the ones who returned like dead mice and lived quietly. Those people have passed the years, and now the cooperation has entered and nationally, "Because you are victims. People who say the same thing do "re-input" with each other. Format each other's memories anew (initialize the storage device)..."

(to be continued)

2021/10/15 23:26 KST