Kim, Bok dong

Kim, Bok dong
(19 April 1926 – 28 January 2019)
wasamong many young women
forced into sexual slavery
by the Japanese
Imperial
Army.

She later became
a Korean human rights activist
who campaigned against
sexual slavery and
war rape.

She was one of many
young women who were forced
into sexual slavery
by the Japanese
military;

a military
that systematically
forced  girls between the ages
of 10 to 18 years of age

from
colonized and
occupied countries
from the 1930s until
the end of World
War II.

From age 14,
Kim, Bok dong  was
imprisoned

in comfort stations
for eight years
across different
countries
in Asia.

Her experiences evoked
in her a feminist consciousness
and led her to become
a strong activist,

advocating
the end of war-time
sexual violence, anti-imperialism,
workers’ rights,

and
inter-Korean reconciliation.

Along with the other so-called
“comfort women”, she has made
the three-fold demand from
the Japanese government:

a formal
state-level apology,

reparations,

and
correction
of

Japanese history
(including amending
Japanese history textbooks
to include the truth of
the “comfort women” issue).

In addition,
Kim Bok-dong herself also
supported other “comfort women”
to step forward, and was a leader
and spokesperson in the
“comfort women”
movement.

Kim Bok-dong died in Seoul,
South Korea, in hospital.

From: Encyclopedia

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