> Public servants referred to the camptown sex workers here as “comfort women” — the same infamous euphemism used for women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese imperial army. Each week, medics would come by to test the camptown women for venereal diseases and cart off anybody who tested positive. When they were finally released a week later, they looked like death warmed over.
That was the horrific place where we made the acquaintance of Kim Ae-ran..
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https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/1212890.html

Keeping up the fight of Kim Ae-ran, a fierce advocate for ‘camptown women’ like herself

Kim was the driving force behind an ongoing suit seeking damages for Korean women abused by the US military

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